Mother & child Zanzibar Sykes' Monkey - Jozani Forest, Zanzibar, Tanzania

5 October 2009 - Jozani Forest (Jozani-Chwaka Bay National Park), Zanzibar, Tanzania.

 

Mother and child.

 

Sykes' Monkey or White-throated Monkey / Witkeelmeerkat (Cercopithecus albogularis), subspecies: Zanzibar Sykes' Monkey / Zanzibar Witkeelmeerkat (Cercopithecus albogularis albogularis).

 

Subspecies Zanzibar Sykes' Monkey is also known as Cercopithecus mitis albogularis.

 

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Kingdom: Animalia; Animals / Dierenrijk

Phylum: Chordata; Vertebrates / Gewervelden

Class: Mammalia; Mammals / Zoogdieren

Order: Primates; Primates / Primaten

Suborder: Haplorrhini; Tarsiers, Monkeys and Apes / Apen en Spookdieren

Parvorder: Catarrhini; Old World Monkeys and Apes / Smalneusapen

Superfamily: Cercopithecoidea; Old World Monkeys / Apen van de Oude Wereld

Family: Cercopithecidae; Old World Monkeys / Apen van de Oude Wereld

Subfamily:Cercopithecinae; Baboons, Macaques and Vervet Monkeys / Meerkatachtigen

Genus: Cercopithecus; Guenon Monkeys / Echte Meerkatten

Species: Cercopithecus albogularis; Sykes' Monkey or White-throated Monkey / Witkeelmeerkat

Subspecies: Cercopithecus albogularis albogularis; Zanzibar Sykes' Monkey / Zanzibar Witkeelmeerkat

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