Sykes' Monkey
Cercopithecus mitis albogularis
Sykes' Monkey · Kenya · 30 September 2023
A Sykes' Monkey grooming in the forest of the Kenyan highlands, which is where the East African form of this widespread species lives: in the canopy of the montane and coastal forests from Kenya to Mozambique. Grooming takes up a good part of the day.
The white throat and chest give the local name, white-throated monkey, and separate this form from the blue monkeys further south and west - all of which are one very variable species. The grooming is hygiene, but it is mostly politics: who grooms whom, and for how long, maps closely onto rank.
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