White-throated guenon

Appearance

The white-throated guenon, also known as the red-bellied monkey and the red-bellied guenon, is a diurnal primate that lives on trees of rainforests or tropical areas of Nigeria and Benin. The white-throated guenon is usually a frugivore but insects, leaves, and crops are also in its diet. The white-throated guenon was once considered extinct due to constant hunting for the fur of its unique red belly and white front legs.

Males weigh from 3.5–4.5 kg and females weigh 2–4 kg.

Range and habitat

It is arboreal, living in moist tropical forest and the wettest parts of dry tropical forest, however it can also be found in secondary bush and old farmland. Yet, a small group was found near the Niger River in 1988. It is present within Nigerian forest reserves and sacred groves in Benin but hunting and logging restrictions are difficult to enforce or nonexistent.

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

In crisis

It usually lives in small groups of four to five individual monkeys even so, there have been groups of 30 discovered, and in cases, some males wander alone. Females give birth to one offspring, that is a factor of decreasing population. The white-throated guenon is still considered an endangered species due to its decreasing population.

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

White-throated guenon 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 White-throated guenon, Wikidata item Q1150237. 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.