Talk:Blue monkey

Photo

I recently got a good shot at a Blue Monkey in Tanzania:

Image:BlueMonkey.jpg

Any interest in adding it to the article?

Cheers, Pedro Gonnet 15:48, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

careful; taxonomy

When adding info to this article, be careful with the taxonomy. For example, I've just removed a photo of a Sykes' Monkey, the currently featured map includes the range of several relatives, and this species, contrary to what the previous version said, is not restricted to rainforest and montane bamboo forests. In fact, they can be found in a wide range of forest, even fairly dry, as long as it is evergreen (notice for example that the currently featured photo, linked above, is from Lake Manyara - you'd be hard pressed to find any rainforest or monetane bamboo forest there). 212.10.79.62 (talk) 02:09, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Same problem with fur-length, which - as could be expected from a species with both highland and lowland populations - is highly variable. See e.g. Collins Field Guide to Mammals of Africa including Madagascar (Diller and Haltenorth, 1980). 212.10.79.62 (talk) 07:25, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

All five categories are fairly short, but the social structure category is the best developed. In this category, there is a brief discussion of cooperation where young females help care for infant that are not theirs. The information in the reproduction section is mostly redundant with the information contained in the social structure category, so the two should be combined to form one category. Another option would be to add more information about gestation and development that would help the reproduction category stand on its own. Additionally, there is no reference to conservation issues except for a couple sentences in the habitat category. Gabriel.hassler (talk) 22:23, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

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The blue monkey (Cercopithecus mitis) is a species of Old World monkey native to Central and East Africa, ranging from the upper Congo River basin east to the East African Rift and south to northern Angola and Zambia and populations further south down to South Africa. The taxonomy of this species has been disputed and Sykes' monkey, the silver monkey and the golden monkey are often regarded as subspecies. The blue monkey is found in evergreen forests and montane bamboo forests, and lives largely in the forest canopy, coming to the ground infrequently. Its diet consists of fruits, figs, insects, leaves, twigs, and flowers and it lives in philopatric social systems where females stay in their natal groups, while males disperse once they reach adulthood. This photograph shows a blue monkey from the subspecies C. m. labiatus (sometimes called the Samango monkey), in Mount Sheba Nature Reserve, Mpumalanga, South Africa.

Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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