howling monkey

Zool.: Mycetes, a genus of Cebide, and specially Mycetes ursinus. The name "howling" is given from the loud and resonant voice heard by Humboldt and Bonpland half a league away. The hallux is not opposable. The animals are clumsy in make, heavy in their movement, and hang on trees by their long prehensile tails. They inhabit the warmer parts of the New World, to a certain extent corresponding to the baboons in the Old. They are the largest monkeys in South and Central America. Called also Howlers. howl-it, s. [HOWLET.]