?Blue Monkey[1] Conservation status: Least concern (LR/lc)[2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Primates Family: Cercopithecidae Genus: Cercopithecus Species: C. mitis
Binomial name
Cercopithecus mitis Wolf, 1822

The Blue Monkey or Diademed Monkey (Cercopithecus mitis) is a species of guenon native to various parts of east, central and southern Africa, including the Congo River basin. The conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive. ... Image File history File links Diademmeerkatze. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms (as opposed to folk taxonomy). ... Phyla Subregnum Parazoa Porifera (sponges) Subregnum Agnotozoa Placozoa (trichoplax) Orthonectida (orthonectids) Rhombozoa (dicyemids) Subregnum Eumetazoa Radiata (unranked) (radial symmetry) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anemones) Bilateria (unranked) (bilateral symmetry) Acoelomorpha (basal) Myxozoa (slime animals) Superphylum Deuterostomia (blastopore becomes anus) Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ... Typical Classes Subphylum Urochordata - Tunicates Ascidiacea Thaliacea Larvacea Subphylum Cephalochordata - Lancelets Subphylum Myxini - Hagfishes Subphylum Vertebrata - Vertebrates Petromyzontida - Lampreys Placodermi (extinct) Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes Acanthodii (extinct) Actinopterygii - Ray-finned fishes Actinistia - Coelacanths Dipnoi - Lungfishes Amphibia - Amphibians Reptilia - Reptiles Aves - Birds Mammalia - Mammals Chordates (phylum Chordata) include the vertebrates, together with... Orders Multituberculata (extinct) Palaeoryctoides (extinct) Triconodonta (extinct) Subclass Australosphenida Ausktribosphenida Monotremata Subclass Eutheria (excludes extinct ancestors) Afrosoricida Anagaloidea (extinct) Arctostylopida (extinct) Artiodactyla Carnivora Cetacea Chiroptera Cimolesta (extinct) Cingulata Creodonta (extinct) Condylarthra (extinct) Dermoptera Desmostylia (extinct) Dinocerata (extinct) Embrithopoda (extinct) Hyracoidea Insectivora Lagomorpha Leptictida (extinct) Litopterna (extinct) Macroscelidea Mesonychia (extinct) Notoungulata... Families 15, See classification A primate (L. prima, first) is any member of the biological order Primates, the group that contains all the species commonly related to the lemurs, monkeys, and apes, with the latter category including humans. ... Subfamilies Cercopithecinae - 11 genera Colobinae - 9 genera The Old World monkeys or Cercopithecidae are a group of primates, falling in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea in the clade Catarrhini. ... Subfamilies Cercopithecinae - 11 genera Colobinae - 9 genera The Old World monkeys or Cercopithecidae are a group of primates, falling in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea in the clade Catarrhini. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Type species Simia diana Linnaeus, 1758 Species see text The guenons are the genus Cercopithecus of Old World monkeys. ... A world map showing the continent of Africa. ... The Congo River (formerly known as some River) is the largest river in Western Central Africa. ...

Several subspecies are recognised. They include: In zoology, as in other branches of biology, subspecies is the rank immediately subordinate to a species. ...

• Cercopithecus mitis mitis, found in Malawi
• Cercopithecus mitis heymansi
• Stuhlmann's Blue Monkey, Cercopithecus mitis stuhlmanni
• Elgon Blue Monkey, Cercopithecus mitis elgonis
• Cercopithecus mitis botourlinii
• Cercopithecus mitis opitsthosticus

At times some of these have been regarded as full species, while others are not recognised by all authorities as deserving subspecific status and still others not listed have been elevated to full species. The name Samango is sometimes applied to several subspecies, particularly C. m. mitis.

Despite its name, the Blue Monkey is not noticeably blue: it has little hair on its face, and this does sometimes give a blue appearance, but it never has the vivid blue appearance of a mandrill, for example. The fur is short, and mainly a grizzled brown colour apart from the face (which is dark with a pale or yellowish patch on the forehead - the "diadem" from which the species derives its common name) and the mantle, which varies between subspecies. Typical sizes are from 50 to 65 cm in length (not including the tail, which is almost as long as the rest of the animal), with females weighing a little over 4 kg and males up to 8 kg. Binomial name Mandrillus sphinx (Linnaeus, 1758) The Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) is a primate of the Cercopithecidae (Old-world monkeys) family, closely related to the baboons and even more closely to the Drill. ...

Blue Monkey at the Henry Doorly Zoo.

The Blue Monkey is found in rain forests and montane bamboo forests, and lives largely in the forest canopy, coming to the ground infrequently. It is very dependent on humid, shady areas with plenty of water. It eats mainly fruit and leaves, but will take some slower-moving invertebrates. It prefers to live in tall trees which provide both food and shelter, and are therefore, like almost all guenons, suffering from the loss of its natural habitat. Where pine plantations replace natural forest the monkey may be treated as a threat by foresters, since it sometimes strips the bark from exotic trees in a search for food or moisture. It is also hunted for bushmeat. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2000x1178, 467 KB) [edit] Summary [edit] Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Blue Monkey Henry Doorly Zoo User:Cburnett ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2000x1178, 467 KB) [edit] Summary [edit] Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Blue Monkey Henry Doorly Zoo User:Cburnett ... The Henry Doorly Zoo is a zoo in Omaha, Nebraska. ... A rainforest is a forested biome with high annual rainfall. ... Species About 115. ... Exotic can mean: Exotic dance - a form of dancing or stripping Exotic pets - non common pets e. ...

The mating system is polygynous, and there is a corresponding sexual dimorphism in size, with the males substantially the larger sex. Females normally give birth every two years, during the onset of the warm, rainy season; gestation is around 5 months and the infants are born with fur and with their eyes open. Group sizes range from 10 to 40, containing only a single adult male. It is often found in groups with other species of monkeys such as the Red-tailed Monkey and various red colobus monkeys.^[3] The term polygyny (neo-Greek: poly+gune Many + Wives) is used in related ways in social anthropology and sociobiology. ... Type Species Simia (Cercopithecus) badius Kerr, 1792 Species Piliocolobus badius Piliocolobus pennantii Piliocolobus preussi Piliocolobus tholloni Piliocolobus foai Piliocolobus tephrosceles Piliocolobus gordonorum Piliocolobus kirkii Piliocolobus rufomitratus The red colobus are Old World monkeys of the genus Piliocolobus. ...

References

1. ^ Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds) Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 157. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
2. ^ Butynski et al (2000). Cercopithecus mitis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006.
3. ^ Ghiglieri, Michael. East of the Mountains of the Moon: Chimpanzee Society in the African Rain Forest, The Free Press, 1988, pg. 238.

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