huge number of monkeys on the move

• by tsering

  Any idea what's going on here? Lots - and lots - of monkeys travelling, but not looking particularly alarmed:
  http://talk.chimpandsee.org/#/subjects/ACP0003jgm http://talk.chimpandsee.org/#/subjects/ACP0003jgn, http://talk.chimpandsee.org/#/subjects/ACP0003jgo http://talk.chimpandsee.org/#/subjects/ACP0003jgp

  Posted May 31, 2015 2:19 AM

• by Quia moderator

  These are sooty mangabeys, so.. some reading for all of us 😃 http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/factsheets/entry/sooty_mangabey

  Check out the 'Ecology' section. They wander around a few square kilometers, looking for good places to forage, mostly traveling in the early morning and late evening. I'd say this group is up rather late, timestamp says it's 2AM!

  Posted May 31, 2015 4:19 AM

• by AnLand moderator in response to Quia's comment.

  But it is a video from 2012. We had obviously wrong time stamps (humans at midnight in full daylight) in 2012 before. So my guess is, the time stamp might be wrong here. The video also do not look like the night videos, but rather like the early morning ones.

  Thanks for the reading material!

  Posted May 31, 2015 10:10 AM

• by tsering

  Thanks! and the reading material is interesting, great

  Posted May 31, 2015 2:58 PM