To study the animals' roars, the team measured the volume of a howler bone in their throats which act like a resonator, the larger that bone, the deeper that voice.
You'll probably encounter more howler monkeys than tourists amid the intricately carved stelae and temples where the " Jaguar" clan thrived from 500 to 700 A.D.
But when she was hired to help build a zoo, she met the animal that would change her life and theirs, the cotton-top tamarin, a little monkey with a look right out of Dr. Seus.