The black-headed night monkey (''Aotus nigriceps'') is a night monkey

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

from

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. It is found in

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and

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. The ''A. nigriceps'' in Peru were notably inhabiting areas that were degraded, and often these areas were disturbed either by human activities or natural occurrences in the ecosystem.

Names

It is called ausisiti in the

Kwaza language Kwaza (also written as Kwazá or Koaiá) is an endangered language, endangered Amazonian language spoken by the Kwaza people of Brazil. Kwaza is an unclassified language. It has grammatical similarities with neighboring Aikanã language, Aikanã ...

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, Brazil,Manso, Laura Vicuña Pereira. 2013.
Dicionário da língua Kwazá
'. M.A. dissertation.

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. and nu’nu’ in the

Shawi language Chayahuita is an endangered Amazonian language spoken by thousands of native Chayahuita people in the Amazon basin of north-central Peru. Spoken along the banks of the Paranapura, Cahuapanas, Sillay, and Shanusi rivers, it is also known as Chaya ...

of Peru.Rojas-Berscia, Luis Miguel. 2019.
From Kawapanan to Shawi: Topics in language variation and change
'. Doctoral dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen.

Parasites

''A. nigroceps'' suffers from ''

Plasmodium brasilianum ''Plasmodium brasilianum'' is a parasite that infects many species of platyrrhine monkeys in South and Central America. Description Sequence analysis of circumsporozoite protein, merozoite surface protein-1, and small subunit ribosomal RNA of ...

'' malaria. ''P. brasilianum'' was first found in ''A. nigroceps'' by Araújo et al 2013.

References

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