mangabey

Photos and information about the Sooty Mangabey (Cercocebus atys).

The species called the Highland Mangabey (Lophocebus kipunji) was discovered in Tanzania.

Highland Mangabey's honk-bark (in .

Initially known as the Highland Mangabey, later changed to its Tanzanian name of Kipunji, it is one the 25 most endangered primates in the world.

Video of Highland Mangabey (in MPEG format)

HIV-2 crossed species from a different strain of SIV, found in the Sooty Mangabey, monkeys in Guinea-Bissau.

Two endangered primates, the Tana River Mangabey and the Tana River Red Colobus, that are found there along with five more primate species.

It is established that HIV-2 originated from the Sooty Mangabey (Cercocebus atys), an Old World monkey of Guinea Bissau, Gabon, and Cameroon.

The Sooty Mangabey (Cercocebus atys), also called Tom Midwood, is an Old World monkey of Guinea Bissau, Gabon, Senegal and Ghana.

Other primates are Preuss's Monkey, Red-eared Guenon, Greater Spot-nosed Monkey and several species of Bush baby, Collared Mangabey, Chimpanzee and Preuss's Red Colobus.

In 1974 she teamed up with Colin Groves in the Tana River floodplain where they studied the endangered Tana River Red Colobus and the Tana River Mangabey.

The Iringa Red Colobus and Sanje Crested Mangabey are only found in the Udzungwa Mountains National Park, the mangabey species was undetected by biologists prior to 1979.

They are covered with tropical rainforest, mountain forest, miombo woodland, grassland, steppe and are home to many large mammals, including the Udzungwa Red Colobus and Tana River Mangabey, and unusual animals such as the Grey-faced Sengi.

The park protects several well-studied habituated communities of Common Chimpanzee, as well as several species of Central African monkey including the Uganda Mangabey (Lophocebus ugandae), the Ugandan Red Colobus (Procolobus tephrosceles)and the L'Hoest's Monkey.

At a California center, I remember a large macaque named Figs in honor of his impressive male anatomy; in Louisiana, there was a beloved little African monkey named Mrs. Mangabey, who was part of a leprosy study and would persist in hugging her handlers.