Monito del monte / monkey small mountain is a small monkey that lived in South America (Chile and Argentina). Monito del Monte is the Spanish term for calling Little Monkey. But the name is deceiving. Monito del Monte is actually a marsupial that lives in Chile and Argentina. He is a mammal species considered extinct more than 11 million years ago. However, modern explorers discovered the creature.
This little monkey has a body like a mouse with brown fur and big, pointy ears and long tail. It distinguishing the animal was a big eye size and the fact that he lived in the trees of tropical forests. Then, a long tail that has help overcome can swing from tree branches. These animals are nocturnal and arboreal. They live in the bush bamboo Chilean Valdivian temperate rain forests of the southern Andes. Prehensile tail tree branches. These animals feed on insects, other small invertebrates and fruit. The body length is 11 to 12.5 cm. 9-10 cm long tail.
They make a nest like a ball of leaves that hold water in the tree. The leaves are then coated with moss or grass, and placed in protected areas. Nest is sometimes covered with moss shaped gray camouflage, and equipped with some protection from the cold, either when active or when it hibernates. They typically store fat at the base of the tail for winter hibernation.
Allegedly their ancestors from Australia. They immigrated in two continents are connected through the Antarctic in the early Cenozoic. Primitive animals such as mice that lived about 55 million years ago.
Monito del monte usually reproduce in the spring. Females have pseudovagina, and a fur-lined pouch. Monito del monte adult children remain with the mother after weaning. The age of sexual maturity they were after the age of 2 years.
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