Chimp & See Talk

Monkey ID help needed please

  • Batfan by Batfan

    Please could someone confirm that I'm right with Mona monkey please. Since finding out that there are olive colobus here, I'm becoming slightly less confident in my ID skills, when the sighting is only brief. Many thanks

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  • AnLand by AnLand moderator

    Yes, it's a mona monkey. You see the white "cheeks" and the white stripe above the dark face. Olive colobus are more evenly "olive" with a dark face. The circle around the face is for them more light-grayish. Compare here: https://www.arkive.org/olive-colobus/procolobus-verus/video-00.html

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  • Batfan by Batfan

    Thanks for that Anja. I was 95% confident that it was a mona but there was just room for a little niggling doubt.

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