Endangered
Collared mangabey
Cercocebus torquatus
Collared mangabey is an Old World monkey in the family Cercopithecidae (order Primates) — Cercocebus torquatus, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The collared mangabey has grey fur covering its body, but its common names refer to the colours on its head and neck. Its prominent chestnut-red cap gives it the name red-capped, and its white collar gives it the names collared and white-collared. Its ears are black and it has striking white eyelids, that is why some refer to it as the "four-eyed monkey".
It has a dark grey tail that exceeds the length of the body and is often held with the white tip over its head. The average body mass for captive individuals ranges from 9 to 10 kg (20 to 22 lb) for males and 7.5 to 8.6 kg (17 to 19 lb) for females.
Range and habitat
The collared mangabey is found in coastal, swamp, mangrove, and valley forests, from western Nigeria, east and south into Cameroon, and throughout Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon, and on the Gabon-Congo border by the Atlantic shore.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
It has a diet of fruits and seeds, but also eats leaves, foliage, flowers, invertebrates, mushrooms, dung, and gum. The collared mangabey has no defined breeding season, it reaches sexual maturity at five to seven years, and has an average gestation period of 170 days.
In crisis
The collared mangabey is listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List due to habitat loss and hunting for bushmeat.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Collared mangabey is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Collared mangabey, Wikidata item Q301038. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
