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  • Scientific names
    • Cercopithecinae
    • Cercopithecidae
  • Unknown
    • old-world monkeys
  • English
    • Old World Monkeys

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Recent Observations

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Photos

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What

Western Red Colobus Procolobus badius

Observer

loarie

Date

Apr 29, 2012 05:21 PM PDT

Description

Subspecies P. badius badius. These guys were going crazy with alarm calls because they were being hunted by chimps.

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Photos

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What

Sooty/white-naped Mangabey Cercocebus atys

Observer

loarie

Date

Apr 30, 2012 12:45 PM PDT

Description

This was really interesting. This poor little mangabey was separated from its mom and troupe and was the only mangabey in a group of guenons and colobus, my guide who has studied mangabey's for 15 years had never seen this.

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Photos

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What

King Colobus Colobus polykomos

Observer

loarie

Date

Apr 30, 2012 01:45 PM PDT
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Description from Wikipedia

The Old World monkeys or Cercopithecidae are a group of primates, falling in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea in the clade Catarrhini. The Old World monkeys are native to Africa and Asia today, inhabiting a range of environments from tropical rain forest to savanna, scrubland, and mountainous terrain, and are also known from Europe in the fossil record. However, a (possibly introduced) free-roaming group of monkeys still survives in Gibraltar (Europe) to this day. Old World monkeys include...

No range data available.