Sooty mangabey

Sooty mangabey [1]
White-collared Mangabey (C. atys lunulatus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Cercocebus
Species: C. atys
Binomial name
Cercocebus atys
(Audebert, 1797)
Sooty Mangabey range

The sooty mangabey (Cercocebus atys) is an Old World monkey found in forests from Senegal in a margin along the coast down to Ghana.[1] While overall rated as Vulnerable,[2] the eastern race lunulatus, also known as the white-crowned,[3] white-naped[4] or white-collared mangabey (leading to confusion with the collared mangabey), is considered Endangered by the IUCN.[5]

Habitat and ecology

The sooty mangabey lives in both old growth and secondary forests as well as in flooded, dry, swamp, mangrove, and gallery forests. The primate is arboreal and diurnal. They are omnivores whose diet includes primarily fruits and seeds, sometimes feeding on small animals. They live in social groups of four to twelve individuals, but occasionally groups as large as 95 individuals have been recorded.[6]

Taxonomy

There are two distinctive subspecies of this mangabey, and it is possible they should be considered separate species. Both were formerly considered subspecies of a widespread Cercocebus torquatus.[1]

Disease

Sooty mangabeys are naturally infected with a strain of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV), known as SIVsmm. Due to extensive human-mangabey contact in sub-Saharan Africa, SIVsmm has jumped from this species into humans on multiple occasions, resulting in HIV-2 virus. The HIV-1 strain by contrast came from the common chimpanzee strain of SIV.[7][8]

The sooty mangabey can also contract leprosy, as can humans, the Nine-banded Armadillo, the common chimpanzee, and the crab-eating macaque.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Groves, C.P. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 153. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
  2. 1 2 Oates, J. F., Gippoliti, S. & Groves, C. P. (2008). Cercocebus atys. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
  3. ↑ White-crowned Mangabey. Mangabey Species Survival Plan. Accessed 2008-07-18
  4. ↑ http://www.primate-sg.org/lunulatus.htm White-Naped Mangabey Cercocebus atys lunulatus. Accessed 2011-11-03
  5. ↑ Oates, J. F., Gippoliti, S. & Groves, C. P. (2008). Cercocebus atys ssp. lunulatus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
  6. ↑ Rowe, N. (1996). The Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates. East Hampton, New York: Pogonias Press.
  7. ↑ Binhua Ling, Cristian Apetrei, Ivona Pandrea, Ronald S. Veazey, Andrew A. Lackner, Bobby Gormus, and Preston A. Marx (August 2004). "Classic AIDS in a Sooty Mangabey after an 18-Year Natural Infection". J. Virol. 78 (16): 8902–8908. doi:10.1128/JVI.78.16.8902-8908.2004. PMC 479084. PMID 15280498.
  8. ↑ Lemey, P.; Pybus, O. G.; Wang, B.; Saksena, N. K.; Salemi, M.; Vandamme, A. M. (2003). "Tracing the origin and history of the HIV-2 epidemic". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100 (11): 6588–6592. doi:10.1073/pnas.0936469100. PMC 164491. PMID 12743376.
  9. ↑ Rojas-Espinosa O, Løvik M (2001). "Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepraemurium infections in domestic and wild animals". Rev. Sci. Tech. Off. Int. Epiz. 20 (1): 219–51. PMID 11288514.

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