Of all the monkeys that I have ever known, either wild or in captivity, the red howlers of the Orinoco, in Venezuela, have the most remarkable voices, and make the most remarkable use of them.
It is the habit of troops of red howlers to indulge in nocturnal concerts, wherein four, five or six old males will pipe up and begin to howl in unison.
Well, the howlers behave in just the same way, except that their concert begins soon after dark and goes on all through the night.
If one monkey alone is capable of roaring as loudly as a jaguar, think what the noise must be when fifty or sixty howlers are all howling at the same time.
They have very powerful voices, and travelers who are not used to their noise say that it is quite impossible to sleep in the forest if there is a troop of howlers anywhere within two miles.
In Cairo this custom prevails: At the instant of a man’s death (if his property is sufficient to justify the expense) professional howlers are employed.
A collection of genuine howlers would be no unimportant service to the science of juvenile psychology.
The answers of children are invariably entertaining; and I wish the Educational Institute of Scotland would appoint a committee to codify the howlers that come under the notice of its members.
So numerous indeed are the subjects of the school curriculum in our day that howlers and confusion are bound to result.
Of late years these howlershave been excised, but if Scotland had Home Rule they might re-appear.
The annual blue book of the Scotch Education Department used to include a recreative series of howlers that had been sent up in the various reports of the Government Inspectors.
Some of his howlers have long been known in the North: but a howler (like history) is wont to repeat itself.
At the point where the howlers had clustered together, the strait was narrower than elsewhere within sight.
Yes, patron, and the loudest howlers of the whole tribe.
Frantzius states that the Howlers which he saw in Costa Rica were darker than is indicated by Dr.
In the larynx of Ateles there is a single median air-sac opening from the back of the windpipe, but there is no such extension of the resonating apparatus as is seen in the Howlers (Alouatta).
The canine teeth are small, and the angle of the lower jaw expanded, somewhat as in the Howlers (Mycetes), though to a less extent.
The Spider-Monkeys and the Howlers alone extend so far North as Mexico, and the Night-Monkeys reach to Nicaragua, while the Squirrel-Monkeys and Capuchins have penetrated no further than to Costa Rica.
The Red Howlers always travel in large companies, keeping to the forests of the low lands and shores of the rivers.
The Howlers are semi-nocturnal in their habits, uttering their cries late in the evening and before sunrise, and also on the approach of rain.
The frontal and occipital regions of the skull approximate in form to those in Man; the angle of the mandible is expanded, but less so than among the Howlers (Mycetes).
When Howlers are seen in the forest," remarks Mr. Bates, "there are generally three or four of them mounted on the topmost branches of a tree.
The howlers are large and stout bodied monkeys, with bearded faces, and very strong and powerfully grasping tails.
The howlers are the only kinds of monkey which the natives have not succeeded in taming.
When howlers are seen in the forest, there are generally three or four of them mounted on the topmost branches of a tree.
The Sapajous are subdivided into three genera, of which the Howlers form one.
Of the truehowlers there are about a dozen species known to naturalists.
When Howlers are seen in the forest, there are generally three or four of them mounted on the topmost branches of a tree.
According to Humboldt, this is an exaggeration: the Howlersassemble in large numbers, morning and evening, and join in a chorus of discords, but do not obey a president or leader.
The Monkeys belonging to the family of Howlers are remarkable on account of the formation of their throat, which causes their voice to be hoarse and loud and very disagreeable.
Instantly the Hanniston howlers in the audience began to whoop up the noise.
Uncle Sam's midshipmen waited with patience and courtesy, but when their turn came they volleyed forth four times as much as the visiting howlers could supply.
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