mangabeys

Scientists found two strains of simian foamy virus, commonly found in nonhuman primates, from three species — two mangabeys and a chimpanzee — in bushmeat.

Bushmeat Presents Latest Food Scare Joel Stonington 2010

Scientists found two strains of simian foamy virus, commonly found in nonhuman primates, from three species — two mangabeys and a chimpanzee — in bushmeat.

Bushmeat Presents Latest Food Scare Joel Stonington 2010

Scientists found two strains of simian foamy virus, commonly found in nonhuman primates, from three species — two mangabeys and a chimpanzee — in bushmeat.

Bushmeat Presents Latest Food Scare Joel Stonington 2010

Groves’ report is proposing to raise the conservation status of Uganda mangabeys to the IUCN’s list of endangered species.

Archive 2007-02-01 2007

Incidentally, drill-mangabeys are sometimes called eyelid monkeys because of their white upper eyelids, and baboon-mangabeys are sometimes called black mangabeys, for the obvious reason.

Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

Good observations were finally made of the Kipunji in December 2003, and it now turned out that a monkey population reported in 2001 from the Ndundulu Forest Reserve, misidentified as Sanje mangabeys Cercocebus sanjei (itself only discovered in 1979), were actually reports of the Kipunji.

Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

But as Peeters and her colleagues conclude in a report on their findings, "hunters and food handlers may be at risk of infection with many more SIVs than just those from chimpanzees and sooty mangabeys."

Breeding Grounds 2008

If primates interest you, check out my posts on kipunjis and mangabeys.

Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006

Macaques develop AIDS when they contract SIV from sooty mangabeys.

Breeding Grounds 2008

Drill-mangabeys, drills and mandrills search manually through rotten wood and leaf litter, consuming hard nuts and seeds, and audibly cracking them with their large teeth.

Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006