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    (c) Gregoire Dubois, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

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Tantalus Monkey

Chlorocebus tantalus

Worldwide
1,130 observations
Group
Mammals
iNaturalist Wikipedia

About

The tantalus monkey (Chlorocebus tantalus) is an Old World monkey from Africa that ranges from Ghana to Sudan. It was originally described as a subspecies of the grivet (Chlorocebus aethiops). All species in Chlorocebus were formerly in the genus Cercopithecus. It is a common species with a wide range, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being of "least concern".

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