#0333 · 🦊 mammals

Blue Monkey

🇳🇱 Diadeemmeerkat ·Cercopithecus mitis

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Yvonne A. de Jong · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Mike LaBarbera · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © David Bygott · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Shirley Hitschmann · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Yvonne A. de Jong · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. © Nik Borrow · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Quissama, Angola:© Luis Querido · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Kipande Road, Nairobi, Nairobi, KE:© Elliot Greiner · CC BY 4.0
9. Bibala, Angola:© abcdefgewing · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. (South) Uthungulu DC, South Africa:© magdastlucia · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The blue monkey or diademed monkey ( Cercopithecus mitis ) is a species of Old World monkey native to Central and East Africa, ranging from the upper Congo River basin east to the East African Rift and south to northern Angola and Zambia. It sometimes includes the Sykes', silver, and golden monkey as subspecies.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,135iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
5,135 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Wolf in 1822 (204 years ago).