Photo by Charlesjsharp (Wikimedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nOn average, the Vervet will be anywhere between 46 – 66 cm (17.9 – 25.7 “) long with a tail that is typically longer than their body.\u00a0 Not only do they have a long tail but their arms and legs are also very long.\u00a0 This provides the Vervet with the ability to run on all fours and they just happen to be pretty gosh darn quick on the ground. Although they are swift runners the Vervet Monkey spends most of their time in the trees (hence the super long tail).\u00a0 Believe it or not, you will be hard-pressed to find a Ververt Monkey more than 450 meters from a tree.\u00a0 This makes sense since these trees provide protection from predators, food and of course a wickedly cool tree-house.<\/p>\n
Vervet Monkey Fast Fact – <\/strong>Typically the males are larger than the females but if you don’t want to use size to determine the sex of your monkey friend, you can always tell by the male’s bright blue………ummmm…..testicles.\u00a0 This would definitely make identification a lot easier for all those monkey researchers.<\/p>\nWell, it looks like we are done monkeying around for the day so we should get back to work.\u00a0 Enjoy the rest of your day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It looks as though we are moving right along with the Wild Facts this week.\u00a0 I don’t know about all of you but this week is starting to move at an incredibly quick pace.\u00a0 Perhaps this is due to the fact that I am trying to get things ready for my move from the Yukon back to Ontario.\u00a0 That’s right, I am moving out of the North and into Canada’s Capital city (no, not Toronto!).\u00a0 As a result, next week will be a theme week so if you have any cool themes then please leave them in the comment <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,4024],"tags":[348,1937,1938,305,306,1936,4025,1935,1934],"yoast_head":"\n
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