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Mona monkey

Cercopithecus mona

Photo by Dan Doucette
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Field Notes

Description:

The mona monkey has brown agouti fur with a white rump. Its tail and legs are black and the face is blue-grey with a dark stripe across the face. The mona monkey carries food in cheek pouches.

Habitat:

forest

Notes:

I spotted this at Baobeng Fiema monkey sancturay. Mona monkeys have always been protected at Baobeng-Fiema and are habituated to humans. They basically live together with black and white colobus in a plot of forest between the villages of Baobeng and Fiema, but often come into the villages.

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Comments (7)
Dan Doucette
Thanks Carol and asergio, even if it was a year ago. I had forgotten this was a sotd. This one must have went under the radar a bit and was before Noah really surged in popularity.
peter
Spotting of the day: "The Mona Monkey is an old world monkey native to Africa and belongs to one family, Cercopithecidae, which is related to apes and humans." http://facebook.com/projectnoah/posts/131161670291240 http://twitter.com/projectnoah/status/69454737216503808

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