Sooty Mangabey
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| Cercocebus chrysogaster (Audebert, 1797) |
The Sooty Mangabey (Cercocebus atys), also called the White-collared Mangabey, is an Old World monkey of Guinea Bissau, Gabon, and Cameroon. It has social groups of anywhere from four to twelve individuals. It is believed that a strain of the simian immunodeficiency virus jumped species to humans to become the HIV-2 virus.
There are two subspecies of this mangabey:
- Cercocebus atys atys
- Cercocebus atys lunulatus
