The crazily spastic, loud, and guttural roar of the howler monkey
For the first minute or so of this footage the monkey’s noises are odd but almost endearing, like its version of a purr. But then, at about a minute in, he really kicks it up a notch and the roaring starts to sound like the glottal rattle of Satan himself…
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(via Boing Boing)
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Absolutely horrifying. I’d FREAK OUT if I encountered one of these. Ever. Even if it was along with his little human friend there.
I lived a few blocks from the Woodland Park Zoo when I was in college, and if the wind was right, you could hear their howler monkeys…at first I thought it was a bunch of football crazies in a nearby apartment watching a game!