You might want to offer this African monkey a bouquet of arrowroot, its favorite snack. He deserves it: Known as a lesula, the monkey was recently confirmed as a distinct species by Kate Detwiler ’95 ...

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The agent of malaria has been found in the greater spot-nosed monkey, also known as putty-nosed monkey (Cercopithecus nictitans), a small African primate derived from a line different to that of ...

Although Cercopithecus monkeys, a widely distributed genus in Africa, usually have a discerning palate for fruits and leaves, they are opportunistic omnivores that sometimes consume lizards ...

The Park also contains the most significant natural habitats for a number of species found nowhere else in the world, including the globally threatened Eastern Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ...

Lesula (Cercopithecus lomamiensis) is the world’s newest species of monkey. Hailing from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesula is only the second new monkey species discovered in Africa ...

DURING the examination of spinal dorsal root ganglia from a large number of South African vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus) we have observed that eosinophilic cytoplasmic bodies ...

Close up of new species: lesula (Cercopithecus lomamiensis). This is a captive adult male. Photo courtesy of Hart et al. In a massive, wildlife-rich, and largely unexplored rainforest of the ...

Taxonomy and biogeography of the gentle monkey Cercopithecus mitis Wolf, 1822 (Primates: Cercopithecidae) in Kenya and Tanzania, and designation of a new subspecies endemic to Tanzania.

Although Cercopithecus monkeys, a widely distributed genus in Africa, usually have a discerning palate for fruits and leaves, they are opportunistic omnivores that sometimes consume lizards ...