How to Use howler monkey in a Sentence

howler monkey

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  • Red howler monkeys swung from the cables of a footbridge and screeched in the jungle.
    — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2024
  • In the south, howler monkeys continue to suffer in the heat.
    — Mark Stevenson and Maria Verza, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 June 2024
  • Researchers found a link between the size of a howler monkey's hyoid (red) and the size of their testes.
    — Janine Anderson, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2015
  • Crickets commence their chorus as the howler monkeys hush for the night.
    — Amber Dance, Scientific American, 12 May 2019
  • Zookeepers at the Phoenix Zoo were in mourning as Olivia, a beloved black howler monkey, passed away this week at 26 years old.
    — Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The howler monkey is a cartoonish creature, big and loud, and can be found hiding in the jungle canopy.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 7 May 2022
  • The Houston Zoo on Wednesday announced the arrival of a howler monkey named Marlie.
    — Chron, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Malu wanted to see sloth bears, the national symbol, and howler monkeys.
    — Shoba Narayan, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2023
  • He’s like halfway between an orangutan and a howler monkey.
    — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Also associated with the dawn was the howler monkey, whose hearty cry would greet the morning.
    — Benjamin Lima, Dallas News, 2 June 2023
  • Welch had told me that howler monkeys in Panama sometimes fell from trees after screwworms ate out their eyes.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 26 May 2020
  • Outings start early—4:30 in the morning, just as the howler monkeys are starting their racket, like a chorus of blowtorches from on high.
    — Austin Merrill, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2018
  • Bring your binoculars to zoom in on endemic species such as the Coiba howler monkey, the crested eagle, and the scarlet macaw.
    — Siobhan Reid, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 May 2024
  • The deaths of dozens of howler monkeys in Mexico amid brutal heat may be the latest sign of the danger extreme temperatures pose to wildlife around the world.
    — Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 25 May 2024
  • The howler monkey represents the epitome of the hyoid’s development, where the bone is about the general shape of a round-bottomed cup.
    — New York Times, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Spy frogs, howler monkeys, hummingbirds, parrots and sloths.
    — Laura Manske, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Roaring howler monkeys serenaded us but kept out of sight.
    — Alex Pulaski, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Screens are the only divider separating you from the forest; you’ll be waked by howler monkeys rather than by an alarm clock, and entertained by the parrots, monkeys and toucans that like to hang out in the trees by the pool.
    — Danielle Braff, Houston Chronicle, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Families of howler monkeys pack into the small, forested islands that occasionally pop out of the marsh.
    — NBC News, 21 July 2019
  • In one entrancing swath of forest, towering ceiba trees loom and hooting howler monkeys leap from branch to branch in the understory.
    — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The cries of howler monkeys emanated in the distance, where stone structures evoking the old Indiana Jones movies were draped with jungle vegetation.
    — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2019
  • But the pleasure of these rooms is their permeability to the forest, which at night comes alive with grunting frogs, chirping insects, and the occasional bellow of a howler monkey.
    — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Conservationists have been hoisting buckets of water and fruit into the trees to help the howler monkeys survive, as well as removing the bodies of those that have already died.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • Audubon Zoo's World of Primates exhibit welcomed a new baby female black howler monkey in January.
    — Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, NOLA.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The only sounds at La Casa de Campana were natural ones: the trilling of cicadas, songs of wild birds, and an occasional round of portentous roaring from a group of howler monkeys somewhere in the nearby forest.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The zoo is celebrating Calliope's birth and the howler monkey family as a step forward in conservation efforts.
    — Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, NOLA.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Parque Natural Metropolitano offers day and night tours led by guides who share insights about the conservation area's history, flora, and fauna (try to spy howler monkeys and sleepy sloths).
    — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Since mid-May, environmentalists reported that 138 howler monkeys, known for their roaring vocal calls, had been found dead in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco as temperatures climbed.
    — Stefanie Eschenbacher, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2024
  • Mantled howler monkeys howl for longer in the resource-rich interiors of forests than in areas impacted by human activity.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Over the last several decades, its practitioners have constructed bridges for bears, tunnels for turtles, rope webs that allow howler monkeys to swing over highways without descending to the forest floor.
    — Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023

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