Sooty Mangabey

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Sooty Mangabey

The Sooty Mangabey (Cercocebus atys)(also known as the "Common Aids Monkey") is an Old World monkey

Old World monkey

The Old World monkeys or Cercopithecidae are a group of primates, falling in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea in the clade Catarrhini....
found in forests from Senegal

Senegal

Senegal , officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country south of the S?n?gal River in West Africa. Senegal is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, and Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the south....
east to Ghana

Ghana

The Republic of Ghana is a country in West Africa. It borders C?te d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south....
. It is famous for being the monkey that gave people in Africa AIDS

AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the HIV ....
. While overall rated as Vulnerable

Vulnerable species

A vulnerable species is a species which is likely to become Endangered species unless the circumstances threatening its survival and reproduction improve....
, the eastern race lunulatus, also known as the White-crowned or White-collared Mangabey (leading to easy confusion with the Collared Mangabey

Collared Mangabey

The Collared Mangabey , also known as the Red-capped Mangabey, White-collared Mangabey , or Cherry-crowned mangabey, is a species of primate in the Cercopithecidae family....
), is considered Endangered by the IUCN.

s believed that a strain of the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus

Simian immunodeficiency virus

Simian immunodeficiency virus is a retrovirus that is found, in numerous strains, in primates; the specific strains infecting humans are HIV-1 and HIV-2, the viruses that cause AIDS....
(SIV) jumped from this species to human

Human

A human being, also human or man, is a member of a species of bipedalism primates in the family Hominidae . Mitochondrial DNA evidence indicates that modern humans originated in east Africa about 200,000 years ago....
s to become the HIV-2

HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that can lead to AIDS , a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections....
virus

Virus

A virus is a Optical microscope#Limitations of light microscopes infectious agent that is unable to grow or reproduce outside a host cell . Viruses infect all cellular life....
.

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The Sooty Mangabey (Cercocebus atys)(also known as the "Common Aids Monkey") is an Old World monkey

Old World monkey

The Old World monkeys or Cercopithecidae are a group of primates, falling in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea in the clade Catarrhini....
found in forests from Senegal

Senegal

Ghana

AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the HIV ....
. While overall rated as Vulnerable

Vulnerable species

Collared Mangabey

Disease

It is believed that a strain of the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus

Simian immunodeficiency virus

Human

HIV

Virus

A virus is a Optical microscope#Limitations of light microscopes infectious agent that is unable to grow or reproduce outside a host cell . Viruses infect all cellular life....
. The HIV-1

HIV

Common Chimpanzee

The Common Chimpanzee , also known as the Robust Chimpanzee, is a Hominidae. The name troglodytes, Greek for 'cave-dweller', was coined by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in his Handbuch der Naturgeschichte published in 1779....
strain of SIV.

The Sooty Mangabey can also contract leprosy

Leprosy

Leprosy , or Hansen's disease , is a Chronic disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis. Leprosy is primarily a granulomatous disease of the Peripheral nervous system and Mucous membrane of the upper respiratory tract; skin lesions are the primary external symptom....
, as can humans, the Nine-banded Armadillo

Nine-banded Armadillo

The nine-banded long-nosed armadillo or just nine-banded armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus , is a species of armadillo from North America, Central America and South America....
, the Common Chimpanzee

Common Chimpanzee

Crab-eating Macaque

The Crab-eating Macaque is a primarily arboreal macaque native to Southeast Asia. It is also called the Cynomolgus Monkey, Philippine Monkey and the Long-tailed Macaque....
.

Habitat and ecology

The Sooty Mangabey lives in both old growth

Old growth forest

Old growth forest is a type of forest that has attained great age and so exhibits unique biology features.Old growth forests typically contain large live trees, large dead trees , and large logs, as well as many other common characteristics representative of forests in general....
and secondary forest

Secondary forest

Secondary forest is a forest or woodland area which has re-grown after a major disturbance such as fire, insect infestation, logging or windthrow, until a long enough period has passed so that the effects of the disturbance are no longer evident....
s as well as in flooded, dry, swamp, mangrove

Mangrove

Mangroves are trees and shrubs that grow in saline water coastal habitats in the tropics and subtropics. The word is used in at least three senses: most broadly to refer to the habitat and entire plant assemblage or mangal, for which the terms mangrove swamp and mangrove forest are also used, to refer to all trees and...
, and gallery forests. The primate is arboreal

Arboreal

Arboreal is a word meaning "related to or resembling trees". Its meaning comes from the Latin arbor, meaning tree.In biology, an arboreal animal is one which inhabits or spends large amounts of time in trees or Shrubes....
and diurnal. They are omnivore

Omnivore

Omnivores are species that eating both plants and animals as their primary food source. They are opportunistic, general feeders not specifically adapted to eat and digest either meat or plant material exclusively....
s whose diet includes primarily fruits and seeds, sometimes feeding on small animals. They live in social groups of four to twelve individuals, but occasionally groups as large as 95 individuals have been recorded.

Taxonomy

There are two distinctive subspecies

Subspecies

In biology, subspecies is the taxonomic rank immediately subordinate to a species. A subspecies is a taxonomic group which is less distinct than the Common descent or species from which it originates....
of this mangabey

Mangabey

The term mangabey can refer to three different genera of Old World monkeys:*Lophocebus, the crested mangabeys*Rungwecebus, the Kipunji...
, and it is possible they should be considered separate species. Both were formerly considered subspecies

Subspecies

Cercocebus atys atys (west of the Sassandra River
Sassandra River

The Sassandra River is a river of western C?te d'Ivoire in West Africa. It is formed by the confluence of the Tienba River, which originates in the highlands of northwestern C?te d'Ivoire, and the Gouan River , which originates to the west in the highlands of Guinea....
)
White-collared (or White-crowned) Mangabey, Cercocebus atys lunulatus (east of the Sassandra River)

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