Yellow tailed woolly monkey

Oreonax flaviculada

Primarily frugivorous, eats leaves, flowers, insects, and even occasionally participates in geophagy, or consumption of soil.

Peru, mostly in the Amazon and San Martin

The yellow tailed woolly monkey is a species of monkey seen mostly commonly in Peru; it gets its name from the patch on its tail, being of a noticeable yellow color. The inaccessibility of its habitat protected the species until the 1950s. However, the construction of new roads, habitat loss and fragmentation from agriculture, logging and cattle ranching, and subsistence hunting, together with the monkey's naturally low population densities, slow maturation, and low reproductive rate, have led to a predicted decline of at least 80% over the next three generations. This and its restricted geographic distribution have led to this species' current critically endangered status.