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Species
EndangeredGee's Golden Lutung
species
Observations264
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- blue monkey
- Image
- GOLDEN MONKEY.jpg
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- taxon name
- Cercopithecus mitis kandti
- taxon rank
- subspecies
- IUCN conservation status
- Endangered status
- taxon common name
- Golden Guenon
- Commons category
- Cercopithecus mitis kandti
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Encyclopedic overview
The golden monkey (Cercopithecus mitis kandti) is a subspecies of the blue monkey. It is an Old World monkey found in the Virunga volcanic mountains of Central Africa, including four national parks: Mgahinga, in south-west Uganda; Volcanoes, in north-west Rwanda; and Virunga and Kahuzi-Biéga, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. It is restricted to highland forest, especially near bamboo.
This species is similar to the blue monkey overall, but the golden monkey has golden-orange upper flanks and back.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Golden monkey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.