Species group · Mammals
WAnimals has 2 species of mangabey, in the family Cercopithecidae.
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 2.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
2 species in this group are in a threatened category according to the IUCN.
Recorded in 8 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
The males' call, a whoop followed by a gobble, carries more than a kilometre through closed forest and serves to keep groups apart without the need for direct encounters.
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It opens seeds with extremely hard shells that almost no other primate in its forest can make use of, which gives it access to a reliable food supply at times when ripe fruit is scarce.
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It forages on the ground, turning over the leaf litter with its hands.
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Its molars and enamel are reinforced for opening seeds and nuts with extremely hard shells that no other primate in its forest can make use of, which gives it access to a food available when fruit is scarce.
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It is one of the few species in which a wild primate has been documented regularly feeding on the floor of flooded mangroves, wading through the water among the roots.
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