Animal Rescue
To Costa Rica’s howler monkey population, power lines seem no different to the branches and vines they depend on to swing through the jungle hunting for food. Travelling in family troops, howler monkeys should have a life expectancy of 15 to 20 years. They use their tails like a fifth arm, to grip and hang from branches and add extra balance and stability as they traverse their habitat, rarely descending to the ground. But disaster strikes when these innocent omnivores touch transformers or live wires.