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Some facts about the
Northern night monkey
Adult weight : 0.8 kg (1.76 lbs)
Maximum longevity : 30 years
Female maturity :821 days
Male maturity : 730 days
Gestation : 142 days
Weaning : 77 days
Litter size : 1
Litters per year : 1
Interval between litters : 269 days
Weight at birth : 0.089 kg (0.1958 lbs)
Weight at weaning : 0.36 kg (0.792 lbs)
Basal metabolic rate : 2 W
Body mass : 0.915 kg (2.013 lbs)
Temperature : 37.85 °C (100.13 °F)
Northern night monkey
Order : Primates
Family : Cebidae
Subfamily : Aotinae
Species : Aotus trivirgatus
The Douroucouli, night monkey, northern night monkey, northern owl monkey, owl monkey is listed as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Namings for the northern night monkey
A young / baby of a northern night monkey is called a 'infant'. A northern night monkey group is called a 'troop, barrel, tribe or cartload'.
Facts about the northern night monkey
monkey (Aotus Trivirgatus), is the unique night authentic primate,
monkey, also known as the night monkey (Aotus trivirgatus), is probably
owl monkey, also known as the night monkey (Aotus trivirgatus), is
Aotus trivirgatus is the only nocturnal anthropoid and is rather small with males and females averaging 813g and 736g respectively (Fleagle, 1999). (Full text)
The owl monkey Aotus trivirgatus is a nocturnal new world (Full text)
The musmuqui, Aotus trivirgatus, is being utilized in human malaria studies because it is capable of becoming infected with Plasmodium vivax and P. (Full text)
1. Aotus, genus Aotus -- (douroucoulis)Aotus
genus Aotus
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