#0246 · 🦊 mammals

Vervet Monkey

🇳🇱 Vervet ·Chlorocebus pygerythrus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The vervet monkey ( Chlorocebus pygerythrus ), or simply vervet , is an Old World monkey of the family Cercopithecidae native to Africa. The term "vervet" is also used to refer to all the members of the genus Chlorocebus . The five distinct subspecies can be found mostly throughout Southern Africa, as well as some of the eastern countries. Vervets were introduced to Florida, Ascension Island, and Cape Verde. These mostly herbivorous monkeys have black faces and grey body hair...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 14,332iNaturalist 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.
14,332 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Frédéric Cuvier in 1821 (205 years ago).