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L'Hoest's monkey
Sign in to saveAlso known as Allochrocebus lhoesti, L’Hoest’s monkey
species of mammal
In the Vinony graph
L'Hoest's monkey appears in Vinony's Vulnerable Species collection — one of 16,386 entries.
Within Vinony's link graph, L'Hoest's monkey is referenced by 127 other articles, and connects out to patas monkey, Guenon and Philip Sclater.
It is catalogued under topics including Fauna of Central Africa, IUCN Red List vulnerable species and Mammals described in 1899.
Its subject is documented across 31 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Vulnerablevia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Allochrocebus
- Image
- Smit.Cercopithecus L'Hoesti.jpg
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- Allochrocebus lhoesti
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- IUCN conservation status
- Vulnerable
- short name
- A. lhoesti
- Commons category
- Allochrocebus lhoesti
- Commons gallery
- Allochrocebus lhoesti
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Encyclopedic overview
feeding, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda Colchester Zoo, England
L'Hoest's monkey (Allochrocebus lhoesti), also known as the mountain monkey, is a guenon found in the upper eastern Congo Basin. They mostly live in mountainous forest areas in small, female-dominated groups. They have a dark coat and can be distinguished by a characteristic white beard.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “L'Hoest's monkey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.