PRIMATE ADVENTURES IN CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA

The Amazon Rainforest is unrivalled when it comes to biodiversity. Along with millions of insect species, more than 1,000 bird species, and hundreds of amphibian and reptile species, the Amazon is also home to about 430 species of mammal, with more still to be discovered.

Explore the vast jungles of Central and South America, home to a variety of primates that include lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, monkeys and apes.

Why not book an add-on to your main trip to explore one of these jungle destinations for a few days, or join a full Central & South America discovery tour and see all the amazing wildlife this region has to offer?

This continent has an amazing variety of destinations which are perfect for adventures!

World Class Adventures has access to the best tour operators and will tailor the perfect holiday just for you.

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For adventurous tourists wanting to explore the Amazon — be it in Brazil, Peru, Ecuador or a handful of other South American nations — monkeys have always been a major attraction.

Just some of the species you will encounter in the beautiful continent:

• Howler Monkeys -  Howler monkeys have a well-deserved name. They are generally considered to be the loudest land animals on the planet, with their dawn and dusk howling sessions carrying as far as three miles. Black Spider Monkey
• Spider Monkeys - named for their long limbs and lengthy prehensile tails, which give them a spider-like appearance when all their appendages are in motion.
• Tamarin Monkeys - Small, typically about the size of a squirrel. Emperor tamarins live in parts of the Amazon Basin in Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.
• Capuchin Monkeys - Capuchin monkeys are found in a wide range of forest and jungle locations from Central America all the way down to northern Argentina in South America. Capuchins are small, sociable and spend most of the day looking for food to maintain their varied and omnivorous diets.
• Marmosets - They tend to stay in the upper canopy of the rainforest, eating fruit, insects and their all-time favourite treat: tree sap. Weighing a miniscule 3.5 ounces, the pygmy marmoset is the smallest monkey in the world, found in the western Amazon Basin, including in Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia.
• Squirrel Monkeys - They can swing and climb through the rainforest canopy at great speeds, mainly eating fruits and insects, in groups of up to 500.
• Woolly Monkeys - Four species of woolly monkey live in the Amazon Rainforest. They are dedicated tree-dwellers and rarely descend to the ground, preferring to stay up in the canopy using their prehensile tails to hang around and move from branch to branch.
• Uakari Monkeys - The most famous species of Uakari is the bald Uakari, with its bald head, red face, shaggy coat and an unusually short tail which don’t do much aesthetically, at least to the human eye. They travel in groups of anywhere between five to 100 males and females, primarily in the jungles of Peru and Brazil.
• Titi Monkeys - No primate does jungle romance better than the Titi monkey. Titi monkeys like to live in the dense jungle close to water, where they sit or sleep in pairs — tails entwined — occasionally grooming each other. They are monogamous and mate for life. They are found in forests and jungles in Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia and Peru.
• Night Monkeys - Night monkeys, also known as owl monkeys, are the only truly nocturnal monkeys in the world. As with most monkeys of the Amazon Rainforest, night monkeys are threatened by habitat loss caused by human activities such as agricultural expansion and mining.

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