Today's Jungle New's

  The howlers generally do their howling at first sunlight 5:00am (occasionally 4:22am) and at sundown. This is to let other troops know where they are. Sometimes during the day they will howl if startled by a loud noise or after it rains. They are in the trees behind the house most days.

Today around 10am all heck break loose and they started really howling. There seem to be 2 troops very close together. We watched a couple come over to the one's troops area, making them really howl. 

After much howling all the monkeys went to the trees where the other troop was.

 At that point they stopped howling and were just making quiet noises (talking). After a bit some monkeys moved on in one directions and the other troop went back to the area they started from. I don't know to much about the Howler's but it seemed like the 2 troops just wanted to meet to say Hola.

 I have never seen one stand like this, seems very aggressive.



Noticed there were a few older males which I thought was a bit unusual. 

Check out the expressions on the faces