The other day I posted about some Howler Monkeys and the noises they make. I never posted about these monkeys on Trinidad – not having good video or photos I suppose I lost them in the shuffle. This is a brief post to highlight a video we took while we were the subject of a Howler Monkey tirade/serenade.
The video quality is terrible, like something out of the Blair Monkey Project since it is shot from the ground in poor light with a tiny handheld camera. But it’s not the images that are important it is the sound.
In this case it was directed at us, or we believe it was. A troupe of Red Howler Monkeys was in the trees including some babies. We stood watching them as they yowled and howled at us. After quite a few minutes of this we had to get going so we turned our backs on them and walked away…and they shut up pretty much immediately.
Yes, these are twenty pound monkeys.
