Peruvian Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey vs stinking goosefoot

Lagothrix flavicauda compared with Chenopodium vulvaria

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Peruvian Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey	stinking goosefoot
Kingdom	Animalia (Animals)	Plantae (Plants)
Phylum	Chordata (Chordates)	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)
Class	Mammalia (Mammals)	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
Order	Primates (Primates)	Caryophyllales (Caryophyllales)
Family	Atelidae	Amaranthaceae
Genus	Lagothrix	Chenopodium
Species	Lagothrix flavicauda	Chenopodium vulvaria

Conservation Status

Peruvian Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey

CR — Critically Endangered

stinking goosefoot

CR — Critically Endangered

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Peruvian Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey	stinking goosefoot
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Peruvian Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

stinking goosefoot

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas, flooded grasslands and savannas, and deserts and xeric shrublands, among 8 distinct biome types spanning the Afrotropic and Palearctic and Neotropic realms. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Chad), Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan), Europe (20 countries), North America (Canada, United States), Oceania and the Pacific (Australia), and South America (Chile). Currently classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List, this species faces significant conservation challenges across its range.