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These Old World monkeys live in Africa and Asia. Their tail is never prehensile and their nostrils point downward. Many live in highly organised social troops. Several store food in cheek pouches. They most often move on all fours. Many sleep safely in trees at night.
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Cercopithecidae
Allenopithecus nigroviridis · Least concern
The skin used to describe it came from a young female that lived at the London Zoo from 1892 to 1894. Long taken for a guenon, this monkey has had its own genus since the 1920s. It lives in the swamps of the Congo Basin, in groups of over 40.
Photo: Becker1999 from Grove City, OH (CC BY 2.0)
Cercopithecidae
Cercopithecus mitis · Least concern
The forest canopy is its home: it seldom comes down. Its tail is almost as long as the rest of its body. It eats mostly plants, yet now and then it catches a lizard or a bird. It is also hunted as payback for raided crops.
Photo: Pedro Gonnet (CC BY 2.5)
Cercopithecidae
Macaca cyclopis · Least concern
Apart from humans, it is the only primate native to Taiwan, and the only macaque found nowhere else but there. It ranges from 100 to 3,600 m up, stores food in pouch-like cheeks, and farmers hunt it for the damage it does to crops.
Photo: KaurJmeb (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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