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    differs in dentition and habits. Allen's swamp monkey was named after American zoologist Joel Asaph Allen. Allen's swamp monkey lives in the Congo Basin, the...
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    such as the black crested mangabey, the red-tailed monkey, the Angola colobus, Allen's swamp monkey, and the bonobo. No viable offspring or interspecific...
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    Kipunji (redirect from Kipunji monkey)
    after Mount Rungwe. The kipunji is the first new monkey genus discovered since Allen's swamp monkey in 1923. Zoologists were initially skeptical of the...
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    The sun-tailed monkey (Allochrocebus solatus) from Gabon is one of the least studied primates in its habitat. It was discovered as a new species in 1988...
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    The vervet monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus), or simply vervet, is an Old World monkey of the family Cercopithecidae native to Africa. The term "vervet"...
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    The blue monkey or diademed monkey (Cercopithecus mitis) is a species of Old World monkey native to Central and East Africa, ranging from the upper Congo...
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    Cercopithecini (category Old World monkey stubs)
    a tribe of Old World monkey that includes several monkey species, including the vervet monkeys, talapoins, Allen's swamp monkeys and the guenons, all...
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    The Diana monkey (Cercopithecus diana) is an Old World monkey found in the high canopy forests in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and western Côte d’Ivoire Named...
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    Macaque (redirect from Macaque monkey)
    (/məˈkɑːk, -ˈkæk/) constitute a genus (Macaca) of gregarious Old World monkeys of the subfamily Cercopithecinae. The 23 species of macaques inhabit ranges...
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    The common patas monkey (Erythrocebus patas), also known as the hussar monkey, is a ground-dwelling monkey distributed over semi-arid areas of West Africa...
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    The Preuss's monkey (Allochrocebus preussi), also known as Preuss's guenon, is a diurnal primate that lives terrestrially in mountainous (up to 2500 m)...
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    Cercopithecini Genus Allenopithecus – Allen's swamp monkey Genus Miopithecus – talapoins Genus Erythrocebus – patas monkeys Genus Chlorocebus Genus Cercopithecus...
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    to be disrupted by humans. Like Allen's swamp monkey, they can swim well and look in the water for food. These monkeys live in groups of 60 to 100 individuals...
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    Cercopithecinae (category Old World monkeys)
    Allenopithecus – Allen's swamp monkey Genus Miopithecus – talapoins Genus Erythrocebus – patas monkeys Genus Chlorocebus – vervet monkeys, etc. Genus Allochrocebus...
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  • Thumbnail for De Brazza's monkey
    De Brazza's monkey (Cercopithecus neglectus) is an Old World monkey endemic to the riverine and swamp forests of central Africa. The largest species in...
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  • Thumbnail for Mona monkey
    The mona monkey (Cercopithecus mona) is an Old World monkey that lives in western Africa between Ghana and Cameroon. The mona monkey can also be found...
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    The Dryas monkey (Chlorocebus dryas), also known as Salonga monkey, ekele, or inoko, is a little-known species of Old World monkey found only in the Congo...
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    The golden monkey (Cercopithecus mitis kandti) is a subspecies of the blue monkey. It is an Old World monkey found in the Virunga volcanic mountains of...
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    from natal group at puberty. Crab-eating macaques are the only old-world monkey known to use stone tools in their daily foraging, and they engage in a robbing...
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    Gelada (redirect from Gelada monkey)
    daabee), sometimes called the bleeding-heart monkey or the gelada baboon, is a species of Old World monkey found only in the Ethiopian Highlands, living...
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    The green monkey (Chlorocebus sabaeus), also known as the sabaeus monkey, is an Old World monkey with golden-green fur and pale hands and feet. The tip...
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    Old World monkey found in the forests of Central Africa. It ranges from Cameroon down to Gabon. The grey-cheeked mangabey is a dark monkey, looking in...
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    white-throated guenon (Cercopithecus erythrogaster), also known as the red-bellied monkey and the red-bellied guenon, is a diurnal primate that lives on trees of...
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    Rhesus macaque (redirect from Rhesus monkey)
    The rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta), colloquially rhesus monkey, is a species of Old World monkey. There are between six and nine recognised subspecies split...
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  • Thumbnail for Sclater's guenon
    (Cercopithecus sclateri), also known as Sclater's monkey and the Nigerian monkey, is an Old World monkey that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock...
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    The red-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ascanius), also known as the black-cheeked white-nosed monkey, red-tailed guenon, redtail monkey, or Schmidt's guenon...
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  • Thumbnail for Barbary macaque
    commonly referred to as the "Barbary ape", the Barbary macaque is a true monkey. Its name refers to the Barbary Coast of Northwest Africa. The population...
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    Drill (animal) (redirect from Drill monkey)
    Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys), related to baboons and even more closely to the mandrill. The drill is a short-tailed monkey up to 70 cm (28 in) long...
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    black macaque, Sulawesi crested macaque, or the black ape, is an Old World monkey that lives in the tropical regions of north Sulawesi. Locally known as yaki...
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    Grivet (redirect from Grivet monkey)
    The grivet (Chlorocebus aethiops) is an Old World monkey with long white tufts of hair along the sides of its face. Some authorities consider this and...
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