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Spooky monkeys
Howler monkeys are usually only active during the day. Before night falls, they climb trees to escape ground-based predators and sleep. However, if nocturnal arboreal threats wake them, the howler monkeys produce a very eerie call, as Gordon Buchanan experiences.
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