Abstract
Male parental behavior was observed in black howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata pigra) in Belize and Guatemala from December 1978 to March 1979, with the objective of relating parental behavior to the prevailing monogamous group structure. The results revealed that male parental behavior inAlouatta palliata pigra agrees in some respects with reports from the literature on polygamous and polygynous species ofAlouatta, while in other respects the situation more closely resembles that in monogamous species of non-human primates. Considerable inter-individual variability in male-infant interactions prevailed among the study groups. Male parental behavior in the Belize groups became more prominent with increasing age of an infant.
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