By Mongabay.com Following a deadly yellow fever outbreak in 2016, brown howler monkeys are slowly making a recovery through ...

By 2050, almost 70% of the world's population will live in cities—20% more than today. As cities expand, the natural world ...

In a vulnerable forest in southeastern Brazil, where the air was once thick with the guttural chatter of brown howler monkeys, there now exists silence. Yellow fever, a virus carried by mosquitoes ...

Adult male brown howler monkey. Photo Julio Cesar Bicca Marques. However, during the outbreak misinformation spread by the media led some people to blame the howler monkeys and poison them.

Muriquis seem resilient against a rapidly-spreading yellow fever outbreak that has affected brown howler monkeys (Alouatta guariba) and humans alike. A young brown howler monkey rests on its ...

Black and brown howler monkeys—known for their booming guttural calls—are by far the most afflicted, with mortality rates reaching 90 percent in infected individuals, Mendes says. Eleven of ...

This story originally appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish. Brown howler monkeys are dropping dead by the dozens in southern Mexico. Between May 4 and May 21 ...

Howler monkeys have beards and long, thick hair which may be black, brown, or red. The red howler species is the most common, but it is often targeted by hunters eager for bushmeat. Other species ...

Mark Moffett / Minden Pictures It’s 9 o’clock on a June morning in a muggy tropical forest not far from Brazil’s Atlantic coast and brown howler monkeys have been roaring for an hour.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Following a deadly yellow fever outbreak in 2016, brown howler monkeys are slowly making a recovery through targeted vaccination and ...