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patas monkey
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patas monkey
Old World monkey of the family Cercopithecidae. An orange terrestrial monkey with white underparts and a black face. Called also Erythrocebus patas.


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0131927876 The socioecology of adult female patas monkeys and vervets in Kenya.
In West Africa, only sylvatic DENV-2 has been identified, where it circulates among Erythrocebus patas monkeys and sylvatic mosquitoes, including Ae.
Group size in primates is often limited by scarcity of food and availability of safe sleeping quarters; hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas) break into small groups to forage but congregate by hundreds on a few cliffs at night, while patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) disperse to sleep individually in trees relatively inaccessible to predators (Kummer 1979).
 
 
 
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