Los Angeles Zoo

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  Fossa dude

• 6 Jan 2011

Bad Pic.

Just to cool of a primate to pass it up.

 

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  KCZooFan

• 6 Jan 2011

What is it? A red-tailed monkey?

 

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  Baldur

• 6 Jan 2011

Not as bad photo as I thought it would be when I clicked the photo Keep on practicing but remember that with wire it will always be challenging; personally I hate wire like this.

 

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  Fossa dude

• 6 Jan 2011

I'm not sure ( guenon of some type of coarse )

Maybe Mstickmanp or Back Duiker will know.

(although I wouldn't say Red Tailed because of its yellowish cheeks, Lake of spot on nose, and not that black in color. I could still be wrong . I'm not familiar with this Species.)

 

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  KCZooFan

• 6 Jan 2011

I only thought that because of the red tail, and I though LA had them.

I thought you would know if you said it was "too cool of a monkey to pass up though"

 

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  mstickmanp

• 6 Jan 2011

I've seen this species named Red-tailed Guenon and Moustached Guenon, but to be more precise here is the scientific name: Cercopithecus cephus.

 

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  Fossa dude

• 6 Jan 2011

Thanx mstickmanp. I saw a pic of the mustached Guenon and thought it was but then I looked at the pic and saw that the white on the lip was a ( bit bigger? anyway


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cercopithecus.cephus.behind.bars.jpg

mstickmanp- Is this the same species?

 

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  mstickmanp

• 6 Jan 2011

The pic from wikipedia is from a lower angle making the white look smaller. The zoo has them as C. cephus, so I'm going with that...

Link from zoo's site: Moustached Guenon - Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens

 

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  Maguari

• 8 Jan 2011

Definitely C. cephus - Moustached Guenon. Very nice animals.