Red-bellied titi
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| Red-bellied titi[1] | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Family: | Pitheciidae |
| Genus: | Callicebus |
| Species: | C. moloch |
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| Callicebus moloch (Hoffmannsegg, 1807) |
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The red-bellied titi or dusky titi, Callicebus moloch, is a species of titi, a type of New World monkey, endemic to Brazil. It lives in forests and thickets.
They have rounded heads and thick, soft coats and frequently adopt a characteristic posture with the body hunched, limbs close together, and a tail hanging down. The body is 28–39 cm long, and the tail is 33–49 cm.
It can move quite fast if necessary but rarely does so and generally stays within a fairly small area, feeding on fruit, insects, spiders, small birds, and bird's eggs. Diurnal, it moves in pairs or family groups, which communicate by means of a wide repertoire of sounds. The female gives birth to 1 young.
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- ^ Groves, C. (2005). Wilson, D. E., & Reeder, D. M, eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 144. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=12100337.
- ^ Veiga, L. M. & Ferrari, S. F. (2008). Callicebus moloch. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 3 January 2009.
- Macmillian Illustrated Animal Encyclopedia
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