These monkeys use a series of different calls to express themselves. Males use calls to communicate territoriality and fighting, females to display group cohesion, and alertness, and subadults to display submissiveness, and to stimulate mobbing behavior. They also communicate using visual expressions. Diet Golden monkeys eat about 20 to 30 plant species. They mostly rely on leaves, fruits, and invertebrates, but their main preference is bamboo. Caring for the Young Golden Monkeys breed seasonally and have a gestation period of 5 months.
In ancient Mayan culture, the Quetzal bird's tail feathers were used as currency. In modern Guatemala, the Quetzals are also known as the Guatemalan currency. Coins were issued in denominations of 1, 5, and 10 centavos, and Â¼, Â½ and 1 Quetzal.
Powered by Sidelines. Quetzals are beautiful exotic birds and one of many Guatemalaâs treasures, but because of all the illegal hunting and the destruction of their habitat they are in the list of the to be extinct animals unless things change. In Guatemala it can be found in El Biotopo del Quetzal, Baja Verapaz.owered by Sidelines. Quetzals are beautiful exotic birds and one of many Guatemalaâs treasures, but because of all the illegal hunting and the destruction of their habitat they are in the list of the to be extinct animals unless things change. In Guatemala it can be found in El Biotopo del Quetzal, Baja Verapaz.