Angolan talapoin

The Angolan talapoin, Miopithecus talapoin, also called the southern talapoin, is a very small Old World monkey of the family Cercopithecidae and the smallest of all Old World monkeys. Its coarse fur is banded yellow and black on the back and flanks and whitish on the chest and belly, and the round, short-snouted head has a bare face edged by black skin around the nose. A typical animal measures about 40 centimetres in head and body length with a tail of about 52 centimetres, and males average about 1.4 kilograms against about 1.1 kilograms for females. It lives in the coastal river watersheds south of the Congo River in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in dense evergreen vegetation along river banks, often where rivers run through miombo woodland. Groups of 60 to 100 animals are active by day, mainly in the trees, sleep on branches that overhang water so they can dive in to escape danger, and feed mostly on fruit along with seeds, young leaves and invertebrates.