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Tana River mangabey

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The Tana River mangabey (Cercocebus galeritus) is a highly endangered species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. [1]

55 relations: African rock python, Agile mangabey, Animal communication, Arboreal locomotion, Biodiversity, Bite force quotient, Blue monkey, Canopy (biology), CITES, Crowned eagle, Deforestation, Dentition, Display (zoology), Diurnality, Dry season, Endangered species, Endemism, Ficus sycomorus, Foraging, Galago, Gallery forest, Global Environment Facility, Habitat destruction, Incisor, International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN Red List, Kenya, Kenya Wildlife Service, List of mammalian gestation durations, Martial eagle, Nile crocodile, Old World monkey, Omnivore, Phoenix reclinata, Plant litter, Plantation, Polygyny, Prehensility, Premolar, Primate, Sanje mangabey, Sexual dimorphism, Subspecies, Sugarcane, Tana River (Kenya), Tana River Primate National Reserve, Tana River red colobus, Taxon, The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates, Tourism, ..., Vervet monkey, White-eyelid mangabey, Wilhelm Peters, World Bank, Yellow baboon. Expand index (5 more) »

African rock python

The African rock python (Python sebae) is a large, nonvenomous snake of sub-Saharan Africa.

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Agile mangabey

The agile mangabey (Cercocebus agilis) is an Old World monkey of the white-eyelid mangabey group found in swampy forests of Central Africa in Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, and DR Congo.

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Animal communication

Animal communication is the transfer of information from one or a group of animals (sender or senders) to one or more other animals (receiver or receivers) that affects the current or future behavior of the receivers.

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Arboreal locomotion

Arboreal locomotion is the locomotion of animals in trees.

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.

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Bite force quotient

Bite force quotient (BFQ) is the regression of the quotient of an animal's bite force in newtons divided by its body mass in kilograms.

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Blue monkey

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.

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Canopy (biology)

In biology, the canopy is the aboveground portion of a plant community or crop, formed by the collection of individual plant crowns.

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CITES

CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington Convention) is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals.

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Crowned eagle

The crowned eagle, also known as the African crowned eagle or the crowned hawk-eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus) is a large bird of prey found in sub-Saharan Africa; in Southern Africa it is restricted to eastern areas.

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Deforestation

Deforestation, clearance, or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use.

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Dentition

Dentition pertains to the development of teeth and their arrangement in the mouth.

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Display (zoology)

Display is a form of animal behaviour, connected to sexual selection and survival of the species in various ways.

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Diurnality

Diurnality is a form of plant or animal behavior characterized by activity during the day, with a period of sleeping, or other inactivity, at night.

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Dry season

The dry season is a yearly period of low rainfall, especially in the tropics.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species which has been categorized as very likely to become extinct.

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Endemism

Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Ficus sycomorus

Ficus sycomorus, called the sycamore fig or the fig-mulberry (because the leaves resemble those of the mulberry), sycamore, or sycomore, is a fig species that has been cultivated since ancient times.

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Foraging

Foraging is searching for wild food resources.

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Galago

Galagos, also known as bushbabies, bush babies, or nagapies (meaning "little night monkeys" in Afrikaans), are small nocturnal primates native to continental Africa, and make up the family Galagidae (also sometimes called Galagonidae).

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Gallery forest

Gallery forests are forests that form as corridors along rivers or wetlands and project into landscapes that are otherwise only sparsely treed such as savannas, grasslands, or deserts.

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Global Environment Facility

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) was established on the eve of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to help tackle our planet’s most pressing environmental problems.

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Habitat destruction

Habitat destruction is the process in which natural habitat is rendered unable to support the species present.

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Incisor

Incisors (from Latin incidere, "to cut") are the front teeth present in most mammals.

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International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

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IUCN Red List

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), founded in 1964, has evolved to become the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Africa with its capital and largest city in Nairobi.

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Kenya Wildlife Service

The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) is a Kenyan state corporation that was established in 1989 to conserve and manage Kenya’s wildlife.

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List of mammalian gestation durations

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Martial eagle

The martial eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus) is a large eagle native to sub-Saharan Africa.

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Nile crocodile

The Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is an African crocodile, the largest freshwater predator in Africa, and may be considered the second-largest extant reptile and crocodilian in the world, after the saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus).

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Old World monkey

The Old World monkeys or Cercopithecidae are a family of catarrhines, the only family in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea in the clade (or parvorder) of Catarrhini.

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Omnivore

Omnivore is a consumption classification for animals that have the capability to obtain chemical energy and nutrients from materials originating from plant and animal origin.

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Phoenix reclinata

The Wild date palm or Senegal date palm (Phoenix reclinata, reclinata - Latin, reclining) is a species of flowering plant in the palm family native to tropical Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Madagascar and the Comoro Islands.

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Plant litter

Litterfall, plant litter, leaf litter, tree litter, soil litter, or duff, is dead plant material (such as leaves, bark, needles, twigs, and cladodes) that have fallen to the ground.

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Plantation

A plantation is a large-scale farm that specializes in cash crops.

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Polygyny

Polygyny (from Neoclassical Greek πολυγυνία from πολύ- poly- "many", and γυνή gyne "woman" or "wife") is the most common and accepted form of polygamy, entailing the marriage of a man with several women.

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Prehensility

Prehensility is the quality of an appendage or organ that has adapted for grasping or holding.

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Premolar

The premolar teeth, or bicuspids, are transitional teeth located between the canine and molar teeth.

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Primate

A primate is a mammal of the order Primates (Latin: "prime, first rank").

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Sanje mangabey

The Sanje mangabey (Cercocebus sanjei) is a highly endangered Old World monkey of the white-eyelid mangabey group from Tanzania.

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Sexual dimorphism

Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, the term subspecies refers to a unity of populations of a species living in a subdivision of the species’s global range and varies from other populations of the same species by morphological characteristics.

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Sugarcane

Sugarcane, or sugar cane, are several species of tall perennial true grasses of the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae, native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South and Southeast Asia, Polynesia and Melanesia, and used for sugar production.

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Tana River (Kenya)

The long Tana River is the longest river in Kenya, and gives its name to the Tana River County.

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Tana River Primate National Reserve

The Tana River Primate National Reserve is a former national wildlife reserve in south-eastern Kenya.

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Tana River red colobus

The Tana River red colobus (Procolobus rufomitratus), also called the eastern red colobus, is a highly endangered species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae.

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Taxon

In biology, a taxon (plural taxa; back-formation from taxonomy) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

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The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates

The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates is a list of highly endangered primate species selected and published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission Primate Specialist Group (IUCN/SSC PSG), the International Primatological Society (IPS), and Conservation International (CI).

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Tourism

Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours.

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Vervet monkey

The vervet monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus), or simply vervet, is an Old World monkey of the family Cercopithecidae native to Africa.

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White-eyelid mangabey

The white-eyelid mangabeys are African Old World monkeys belonging to the genus Cercocebus.

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Wilhelm Peters

Wilhelm Karl Hartwich (or Hartwig) Peters (22 April 1815 in Koldenbüttel – 20 April 1883) was a German naturalist and explorer.

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World Bank

The World Bank (Banque mondiale) is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects.

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Yellow baboon

The yellow baboon (Papio cynocephalus) is a baboon in the family of Old World monkeys.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tana_River_mangabey

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