Photo from Wikicommons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe social life of the Guereza is exciting since they usually hang out in troops of 6 to 9 individuals.\u00a0 Unlike other monkey families this troop may actually contain more than one adult male.\u00a0 They also take control of a large tract of land which is typically around 40 acres.\u00a0 Usually they will have a preferred area within this home range.\u00a0 I guess everyone has their favourite spots.\u00a0 If another troop enters this territory they will normally be chased, however, they will not necessarily be totally excluded from the area.\u00a0 The Colobus monkey will use a variety of calls and sounds to indicate which areas are theirs.<\/p>\n
Guereza Fast Fact – <\/strong>Although we may think that all monkey’s have the famous “opposable thumb” the Guereza actually has a very undeveloped thumb.\u00a0 This obviously does not interfere with their tree climbing abilities since they are very proficient in the tree tops.\u00a0 Besides, who needs an opposable thumb when you have rump callouses??<\/p>\nThanks for participating in Monkey Monday’s.\u00a0 See all of you back for tomorrow for another Wild and Amazing Fact!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today we are going to celebrate Monkey Monday (I swear I just make these things up as I go) by exploring the world of the Guereza, which is also known as the Eastern Black and White Colobus, Mantled Guereza or the Abyssinian Black and White Colobus.\u00a0 So where does all of this “Colobus” talk come from?\u00a0 Well, you see the Guereza is actually a type of Colobus monkey.\u00a0 These are old world monkey’s native to Africa.\u00a0 Yep, you guessed it, we are heading to west central or east Africa to learn about this unique primate. The Mantled Guereza typically has <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,4024],"tags":[1363,348,1362,1361,1359,1360,305,306,4025],"yoast_head":"\n
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