Golden-bellied mangabey

The Old World monkey

Golden-bellied mangabey is an Old World monkey in the family Cercopithecidae (order Primates) — Cercocebus chrysogaster.

Range and habitat

The golden-bellied mangabey is an Endangered Old World monkey found in swampy, humid forests south of the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A study of wild populations found that they form large, complex social groups that in some ways resemble those of humans: hile individuals form friendships, they also irritate each other by snatching food, accidentally stepping on tails, and insisting on trying to groom newborn infants (that annoys the mom). Wild golden-bellied mangabeys have been seen consuming and sharing mammalian prey. (Food sharing is rarely observed in most cercopithecine monkeys.) Golden-bellied mangabeys share a habitat with bonobos and a comparison study found that the monkeys travel greater distances within their home range to feed, significantly further than other Cercocebus species.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

In crisis

When faced with predators such as Gaboon vipers, groups will band together and fight collectively.

CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.

Golden-bellied 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 Golden-bellied mangabey, Wikidata item Q576469. 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.