A Howler Monkey Checking Me Out

Say hello to the leader of the howler monkey family that lived in the trees above my campsite in the Calakmul jungle biosphere. There were about 10 of them up there, I was lucky on this day as they came down and I was able to walk up about 3 feet away. The monkey doesn’t look like it, but it has a call that sounds like a monster from one of your worst nightmares! Click here to listen to the insane sound. It’s hard to sleep at night when they are screaming like this right above you…