Lowe's mona monkey

Lowe's mona monkey, Cercopithecus lowei, is an Old World monkey of the family Cercopithecidae that lives in West Africa from the Ivory Coast to Ghana. It was long classified as a subspecies of Campbell's mona monkey, Cercopithecus campbelli, and is now treated as a species in its own right. The common and scientific names honour Willoughby Prescott Lowe, the naturalist and collector who gathered specimens of the animal. The article that describes it is short, and little is recorded there beyond its identity, its range and its predators. In the Ivory Coast, its known predators include the Egyptian cobra, which shows that even this tree-living guenon faces danger from snakes as well as from larger hunters. Further detail on its size, diet and conservation status has to come from other sources, and those facts are left open in this entry until they are read.