African Primates at Home

	The trail doesn't stop here! Just beyond that clearing lies...
	African Primates at Home
SEE and HEAR	Some of the primates I study on their home turf in East Africa... N.B. Many images hidden behind other images! If you have trouble with audio files, click here.

	*Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii* Common Chimpanzee
(27 K)	SAMPLE VOCALIZATION: Scream
	STATUS: Endangered (IUCN: Vulnerable) GENERAL CLASSIFICATION: African great ape HABITAT RANGE: East African forests [These photos/recordings from the Kibale Forest, Uganda (© 1992-2005 MK Holder)] LOCOMOTOR TYPE: Knuckle-walker, terrestrial and arboreal FOOD: Omnivore (hunts, kills, and eats red colobus) FEATURE: Constructs day and night nests for sleeping. Some chimps in the Kibale Forest engage in a stylized form of grooming called «arm-clasp grooming».

	*Gorilla gorilla beringei* Mountain Gorilla
(21 K)	SAMPLE VOCALIZATION: Belch vocalization
(20 K)	DISPLAY SOUND: Silverback male chest-beat
	STATUS: Highly Endangered (n=about 650) IUCN status: Vulnerable GENERAL CLASSIFICATION: African great ape HABITAT RANGE: The Virunga Volcanos on the international borders of Rwanda, Uganda, and Zaïre. [These photos/recordings from the Parc National des Volcans, Rwanda (© 1990, 1993, 2005 MK Holder).] LOCOMOTOR TYPE: Knuckle-walker, primarily terrestrial, with some arboreality FOOD: Primarily folivore FEATURE: Constructs day and night nests for sleeping

	*Cercocebus albigena johnstoni* Grey-Cheeked Mangabey
(26 K)	SAMPLE VOCALIZATION: male Whoop-gobble
	STATUS: «All forest-living monkeys may be considered endangered, because tropical forests are being destroyed at such a high rate and monkey populations are always at risk because of their slow reproduction rate.» Thelma Rowell (1984) GENERAL CLASSIFICATION: Old World monkey HABITAT RANGE: From West Africa to Uganda, north of the Zaire (ex-Congo) River. [These photos/recordings from the Kibale Forest, Uganda (© 1992, 2005 MK Holder)] LOCOMOTOR TYPE: Arboreal quadruped FOOD: Omnivore FEATURE: Cheek pouches

	*Colobus badius tephrosceles* Red Colobus Monkey
	GENERAL CLASSIFICATION: Old World monkey HABITAT RANGE: Western Uganda and Tanzania [This photo from the Kibale Forest, Uganda (© 1992, 2005 MK Holder)] LOCOMOTOR TYPE: Arboreal quadruped FOOD: Primarily folivore FEATURE: Ruminent-type, 4-chambered stomach; thumbless (vestigal pollox)

	*Cercopithecus ascanius schmidti* Redtail Monkey
(28 K)	SAMPLE VOCALIZATION: Chirp
	GENERAL CLASSIFICATION: Old World monkey HABITAT RANGE: From the Central African Republic east to the Mau Forest in Kenya and south to the Mahari Mountains in Tanzania. [These photos/recordings from the Kibale Forest, Uganda (© 1992, 2005 MK Holder)] LOCOMOTOR TYPE: Arboreal quadruped FOOD: Primarily frugivore

	*Colobus guereza occindentalis* Black-and-White Colobus Monkey
(95 K)	SAMPLE VOCALIZATION: Male roar
	STATUS: Endangered (hunted for their pelt) GENERAL CLASSIFICATION: Old World monkey HABITAT RANGE: East Africa, primarily Eastern Zaïre [now the Democratic Republic of the Congo], western Uganda, Ethopia, and southern Sudan. [These photos/recordings from the Kibale Forest, Uganda (© 1992, 2005 MK Holder)] LOCOMOTOR TYPE: Arboreal quadruped FOOD: Primarily folivore FEATURE: Ruminent-type, 4-chambered stomach; thumbless (vestigal pollox)

	*Colobus guereza occindentalis* Infant Black-and-White Colobus Monkey
	SAMPLE: Infant B-&-W Colobus vocalization (coming)
	FEATURE: Infant Black-and-White Colobus are born all white, gradually attaining their distinctive adult markings after the age of 5 weeks. White infants are of great interest to the females in the group, who frequently take the infant from it's mother to hold for a while; this is called «aunting behavior» This behavior is very different from red colobus mothers, who rarely let their infants be handled by others.

ASANTE MERCI WEBALE URAKOZE	All research by Dr. M.K. Holder consists of non-invasive, observational methodology. Research is possible only with permissions from the governments of host countries, and is conducted in cooperation with respective parks management personnel. To all these, and my colleagues abroad, I am most grateful.

	East African Research Sites (Explore the habitats in which these primates live)
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