Chlorocebus

Physical description & Attributes The Green Monkey or “Chlorocebus sabaeus” goes by many names; including sabaeus monkey, vervet monkey and callithrix monkey. They belong to the Old World monkey family. Old World monkeys are distinguishable from New World monkeys in that they are native to Africa, Asia and Europe. They belong to the clade Catarrhini which literally means “down-nose”, simply because their nostrils point downwards. While New World monkeys are native to the Americas and belong to the Platyrrhini clade which means “flat-nose”, because their nostrils face sideways. The green monkey is medium sized in comparison with other species, and is sexually dimorphic, males and females vary in size according to sex. In this case the males…

larger organisms in order to survive. The small stature of Archiebus and its age as the oldest primate discovered, suggests that primates’ ancestors could have been smaller than originally thought. Anthropoids, the ancestors of large primates, were always thought to have descended from large organisms. However, this recent finding suggests that scientists may have been incorrect and creates an opportunity for future research. Source 2: “Social Behaviours and Networks of Vervet Monkeys Are…

around wildlife, mainly in terms of safety and crop raiding. Yet, it is essential to recognize that primates were indigenous to these habitats and it was humans who displaced them in the first place. As a consequence of that displacement, primates who could not adapt to the changes are, or near, extinction while those that did adapt, such as Hanuman langurs, are viewed as pests [Else, 1991]. The vast majority of Hanuman langurs live in human-populated areas and rely on provisioned foods and…