Sykes' Monkey
Cercopithecus mitis albogularis
Sykes' Monkey · Kenya · 30 September 2023
A Sykes' Monkey in the forest of the Kenyan highlands, and rarely far from cover. They live in the middle of the canopy rather than the ground or the very top, in troops of a few dozen, on fruit mostly, with leaves, insects and the occasional egg.
The name is Colonel William Sykes, a Victorian soldier and naturalist of the East India Company; the monkey has its own names in every language around it. Where forest meets farmland it gets treated as vermin, which is the usual story.
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