pygerythrus, from South Africa ( Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape and southern KwaZulu-Natal), and Lesotho is said to have pale-colored limbs and white hands and feet (though the hands are also said to be black with a scattering of greyish hairs), and a greyish body colour with an olive sheen. pygerythrus, as Cercopithecus aethiops, was also formerly divided into four subspecies: hilgerti should be restricted to the population of southern Ethiopia. centralis has been suggested to have precedence, and that Ch. hilgerti for all East African vervets except the insular subspecies Ch. rufoviridis from Mozambique and Uganda has a distinctly reddish-coloured back, which is darker towards the base of the tail. pygerythrus from South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Eswatini. Ĭolin Groves recognised the below five subspecies of vervet monkey in the third edition of Mammals of the World: aethiops is difficult animals in the same pack may be classified as one species or the other, and Ch. pygerythrus where their ranges meet, and thus deciding if the vervets commonly known to occur in Kenya are actually Ch. The different taxa are distinguished by coat colour and other morphological characteristics. The vervet and malbrouck have also been considered conspecific, or as subspecies of a widespread Ch.

The vervet monkey was previously classified as Cercopithecus aethiops, now renamed ' grivet', and reclassified as Chlorocebus. Studies done on vervet monkeys involve their communication and alarm calls, specifically in regard to kin and group recognition, and particular predator sightings. Vervets live in social groups ranging from 10 to 70 individuals, with males moving to other groups at the time of sexual maturity. They have been noted for having human-like characteristics, such as hypertension, anxiety, and social and dependent alcohol use.

In addition to behavioral research on natural populations, vervet monkeys serve as a nonhuman primate model for understanding genetic and social behaviors of humans. These mostly herbivorous monkeys have black faces and grey body hair color, ranging in body length from about 40 cm (16 in) for females, to about 50 cm (20 in) for males. The five distinct subspecies can be found mostly throughout Southern Africa, as well as some of the eastern countries. The term 'vervet' is also used to refer to all the members of the genus Chlorocebus. The vervet monkey ( Chlorocebus pygerythrus), or simply vervet, is an Old World monkey of the family Cercopithecidae native to Africa.

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