White-throated guenon

The white-throated guenon (Cercopithecus erythrogaster), also known as the red-bellied monkey or red-bellied guenon, is a diurnal, tree-living primate of the rainforests and other tropical forests of Nigeria and Benin. It is usually a frugivore, though insects, leaves and crops also enter its diet, and it lives mostly in groups of four or five, occasionally as many as thirty, with some males wandering alone. Males weigh roughly 3.5 to 4.5 kilograms and females 2 to 4 kilograms, and a female bears a single offspring at a time. Hunting for the fur of its red belly and white front legs once led to it being considered extinct, until a small group was found near the Niger River in 1988. It is still considered endangered because its population is decreasing, and hunting and logging restrictions are hard to enforce. Two subspecies are named, the red-bellied guenon and the Nigerian white-throated guenon.