The First Encounter with the Red Howler Monkey 🐒🐒🐒

With this portrait of the red howler monkey, I’m kicking off a short series about our stay in the jungle in search of this curious primate species in the extreme south of Venezuela... Our encounter was a happy accident, since we were actually expecting to see them at the top of the mountain this morning; however, these friends (a pair of red howler monkeys) suddenly appeared from the thick jungle undergrowth.

The encounter was friendly (though we were all cautious) because this species of primate is very unpredictable...

I don’t think they expected to see us so suddenly.