Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1915 — THE"BLACK HOWLER.” [ARTICLE]

THE"BLACK HOWLER.”

Queer South American Monkey That Roars Like a Lion. While there is little likelihood of any species (of fauna) living within the jungle becoming extinct, it would require hut little effort to make the Gatun lake region a wonderful outdoor zoological garden that would prove almost as interesting to visitors as the game refuges along the government railroad in British East Africa. While breakfasting 011 the houseboat a strange, uncouth sound came from the hills to the west, rising rind falling in a torrent of guttural notes. It was the first greeting of the “black howler,” the largest of the South American monkeys, whose uproarious conduct, .whether in tribal conversation, in protestation against man or the weather, was a source of astonishment thereafter. My friend Fuertes, the bird artist and naturafist, whose mimicry of bird notes is quite equal to the fidelity of his brush, declares that the noise of the “howler” is by far the most striking sound in the American tropics, being “a deep, throaty, bass roar, with something of the quality of grunting pigs or of the barking bellow of a bull alligator or an ostrich. The noise was as loud as the full throated roariug of lions, and its marvelous carrying power was frequently attested when we heard it from the far side of some great Andean valley. It is u popular belief on the isthmus that the “black howler” is an infallible weather prophet, aud especially so in predicting a shower. So far as we could discover, it was only when the clouds blackened overhead and the first preliminary drops began to fall that this prognosticator considered it safe to commit himself In the forecast—George Shiras 3d In National Geographic Magazine.

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