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Descriptive Attribute Value(s)
Grouping Old World monkey
Observation Number (Open Context) 44
Subspecies Chlorocebus sabaeus
Common name Green monkey
Period of study February 1975 - July 1976
Country or Region Senegal
Method Direct observation
Wet season Unknown
Dry season Unknown
Environment Sahelian thornbush riverine forest
Altitude (m) Unknown
% Fruit 34.7
% Leaves 32.2
% Flowers 6.2
% Invertebrates 11.0
% Other 15.9
Fruit availability peak Unknown
Low fruit availability Unknown
Percentages Based on average diet composition
Notes Leaves consist of shoots, grasses and herbs, flowers consist of buds, thorns and rhizomes. Other includes gums. Animal food was mostly made up of invertebrates, vertebrates were rarely eaten. This group was attributed to C. aethiops, but it is more likely to be C. sabaeus following the taxonomic revisions by Groves and Kingdon (2013)
Reference Galat & Galat-Luong 1978
Scanning method in recent advances in primatology book - in library
Full Reference
Galat, G. and Galat-Luong, A. (1978). Diet of green monkeys in Senegal. In: D. J. Chivers and J. Herbert (eds) Recent Advances in Primatology: Behaviour. London, Academic Press. Pages 257-258. [Available at: ]
Suggested Citation

Rebecca Haywood. (2020) "Old World monkey 44 from Africa/Senegal/Senegal Valley, Senegal". In Database of non-human primate dietary studies. Rebecca Haywood (Ed). Released: 2020-08-21. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/f398c4ad-54d5-4ef6-b281-54e9c9eea597> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2g73r87k

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