On this week’s Wild Wednesday, Great Plains Zoo Educational Director, Leigh Spencer, joined Dakota News Now to talk about the ...

Far up a giant Amazon jungle tree, a large howler monkey walked among the branches. As it stepped from branch to branch, its long tail would wrap around a convenient trunk providing extra stability.

Howlers also boast a prehensile tail. They can use this tail as an extra arm to grip or even hang from branches—no Old World monkeys have such a tail. A gripping tail is particularly helpful to ...