Malbrouck

The malbrouck, Chlorocebus cynosuros, is an Old World primate from Africa in the genus Chlorocebus, the same genus as the vervet monkey. It is sometimes classified as a subspecies of the vervet monkey or of the widespread grivet. The animal is slim and agile with long limbs and a long tail, olive-grey fur, a white breast and underparts, and white cheeks and eyebrows around a bald, pale-blotched face. Males are about 20 percent larger than females. It is found in central and south-central Africa, from the Albertine Rift in the Democratic Republic of the Congo west to the Atlantic coast and south to northern Namibia and Zambia, living in marshy forest, savanna forest and montane forest up to 4,500 metres. It is active by day in groups of six to more than 50, each holding its own territory, and eats fruit, seeds, flowers, gum, invertebrates, eggs, chicks and lizards, mostly plant food.