The red-eared guenon (Cercopithecus erythrotis) is a small, colourful Old World monkey of the family Cercopithecidae, also called the red-eared monkey or russet-eared guenon. It lives in moist lowland and sub-montane forest in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea (including the island of Bioko) and Nigeria. Its face is marked by blue fur around the eyes, a brick-red nose and ears and yellow cheeks, set against banded brown and pale body fur, grey limbs and a long red tail that is partly prehensile. Unlike other guenons it is unobtrusive and makes only a quiet trill. It is omnivorous, eating fruit, leaves, shoots and insects, and lives in territorial groups of at least one adult male with about ten females and their young. Two subspecies are recognised. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List and is threatened by deforestation, the bushmeat trade and the pet trade.
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It is native to subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria.
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It is native to subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
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It is native to subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria.
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It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List and is threatened by habitat loss, illegal bushmeat hunting and pet trade.
Behaviour and ecology
The red-eared guenon is omnivorous and has been recorded eating fruit, leaves, shoots and insects
Habitat
The red-eared guenon is found in primary and secondary lowland tropical and sub-montane moist forest
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It is native to subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria.
Threats
The red-eared guenon is threatened by deforestation and by the bushmeat trade, particularly on Bioko
Threats, relationship to people
where it is frequently recorded in bushmeat market in Malabo
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is a primate species in the family Cercopithecidae
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is a primate species in the family Cercopithecidae
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Ecological Archives E095-178 (Wilman et al. 2014)Row Cercopithecus erythrotis: Row for the species, Activity-Diurnal column
733 Cercopithecus erythrotis Cercopithecidae 20 0 0 0 10 0 50 0 10 10 Ref_1 ABC Ar A 0 0 1 Ref_1 ABC 3918.33 Ref_117 1
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733 Cercopithecus erythrotis Cercopithecidae 20 0 0 0 10 0 50 0 10 10 Ref_1 ABC Ar A 0 0 1 Ref_1 ABC 3918.33 Ref_117 1
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