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Image reference: 36748
Title:
Chlorocebus aethiops, vervet monkey
Description:
Botswana, Africa. Photographed by Stephen Smith.
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Collection: Animals
Category: Mammals
Keywords: africa, animal, biscuit, botswana, cercopithecidae, chlorocebus, food, fur, green, grey, mammal, monkey, old, photograph, sitting, smith, stephen, vervet, wild, wildlife, world
Genus/Species :
Cercopithecus aethiops
Common name:
vervet monkey
green monkey
© Stephen Smith/NHMPL
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| | The vervet monkey, or green monkey, belongs to the Cercopithecidae family of old world monkeys and is closely related to the guenon monkeys of the genus Cercopithecus. The vervet monkey inhabits areas close to water in the open savannahs of sub-Saharan Africa.
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