Peruvian Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey vs Red leucaena

Lagothrix flavicauda compared with Leucaena diversifolia

Key Differences

• Peruvian Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey is Critically Endangered while Red leucaena is Least Concern.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Peruvian Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey	Red leucaena
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Primates (Primates)	Fabales (Legumes & Allies)
Family	Atelidae	Fabaceae
Genus	Lagothrix	Leucaena
Species	Lagothrix flavicauda	Leucaena diversifolia

Conservation Status

Peruvian Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey

CR — Critically Endangered

Red leucaena

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Peruvian Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey	Red leucaena
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Peruvian Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Red leucaena

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, and flooded grasslands and savannas, among 5 distinct biome types spanning the Afrotropic and Neotropic realms. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (29 countries), Asia (6 countries), North America (13 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (Papua New Guinea), and South America (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador).