Campbell's mona monkey
Campbell's mona monkey[1] | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | Cercopithecidae |
Genus: | Cercopithecus |
Species: | C. campbelli
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Binomial name | |
Cercopithecus campbelli Waterhouse, 1838
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Combined geographic distribution of Campbell's mona monkey and Lowe's mona monkey |
Campbell's mona monkey (Cercopithecus campbelli), also known as Campbell's guenon and Campbell's monkey, is a species of
Distribution and habitat
Campbell's mona monkey is native to Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia as far east as the
Ecology
Campbell's mona monkey is a sociable and territorial species, living in small groups of about eight individuals. Around dawn and dusk, the dominant male climbs to a perch on an emergent tree and issues a series of booms. The sound carries for at least a kilometre, and other males join in. This monkey often associates with monkeys of other species and engages in inter-species territorial calling which obey certain ritual rules.[4] This species has one of the more advanced forms of animal communication, with a rudimentary syntax.[5][6][7]
Campbell's mona monkey is a slow, deliberate forager. The greater part of its diet is wild and cultivated fruit, but it also eats seeds, invertebrates, grubs, small amphibians and lizards.[4]
References
- OCLC 62265494.
- ^ . Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ "Campbell's monkey (Cercopithecus campbelli), Glasgow Museums - Collections Navigator". Retrieved 23 May 2016.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4081-8996-2.
- ^ Rudiments of Language Discovered in Monkeys
- PMID 19915663
- PMID 20007377