Comoé Monkey Project

A team of conservationists led by Dr. Reiko Matsuda Goodwin engages in research to protect the threatened primates of Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire

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@WILDLABSNET Sure!

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@WILDLABSNET Camera traps we installed in the canopy in Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire have captured videos and photographs of at least three different putative hybrid monkeys, the unique cross between the olive baboon and the white-naped mangabey. #Tech4Wildlife

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@Inza2017 Congratulations!

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Is it feasible to reintroduce #lions in Comoé National Park?

https://t.co/GVQeWp1Ct9

[Douane française @douane_france]

Nous avons le plaisir de remettre aujourd'hui près de 400 crânes de primates issus de trafics !

👉 c'est le résultat de plusieurs saisies réalisées par les douaniers de #Roissy

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@DeepFauneCNRS We will try it

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To commemorate this #InternationalPrimateDay, we ask which one is correct.
1. All are primates
2. Some are primates
3. Some primates and cats can hold up their tails in the shape of a question mark.

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All #IPSKuching attendees! We invite you to, "The presence of multiple putative hybrid monkeys (Cercocebus lunulatus x Papio anubis) in a wild mangabey group suggests non-stochastic processes led to intergeneric mating", Sunday Aug. 20, 18:30 Kuching time (6:30 EST; 10:30 GMT)

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All #IPSKuching attendees! We invite you to, "The presence of multiple putative hybrid monkeys (Cercocebus lunulatus x Papio anubis) in a wild mangabey group suggests non-stochastic processes led to intergeneric mating", Sunday Aug. 20, 18:30 Kuching time (6:30 EST; 10:30 GMT)

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Happy Monday morning! Adult male mangabeys sometimes give the loud long-range call called the "whoop-gobble". This is the one given out by an adult male white-naped mangabey from Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire. Isn't it spectacular? Have a great day, everyone!

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Ischial callosities (sitting pads) help us identify sexes in #Endangered white-naped #mangabeys. See the far-apart ♀ (grooming an adult ♀ green monkey) and jointed ♂(the last individual) patterns. #primates #conservation @FordhamNYC @Ujlog_Daloa @univ_na @Ngolo_A_K @oipr225

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Tom Struhsaker (1967) famously described Vervets' ♂ visual signals as "red, white, & blue (scrota)" but green monkeys don't have blue scrota. They have ones that are yellow to green! #primates @FordhamNYC @Ujlog_Daloa @univ_na @Ngolo_A_K @oipr225 @JillPruetz

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Green monkeys of the Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire may be thinking "Hugging your loved one makes you feel good." Why don't you try this morning? #primates #conservation @FordhamNYC @Ujlog_Daloa @univ_na @Ngolo_A_K @oipr225

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@Comoé National Park, CIV, young lesser spot-nosed monkeys like to play when adults are napping. This species used to be common in much of West #Africa, but even this sp. is now Near Threatened. #primates #conservation @FordhamNYC @Ujlog_Daloa @univ_na @Ngolo_A_K @oipr225

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At Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, multiple white-naped #mangabey males give loud karakoo barks that often reverberate in the gallery #forest. #Africa #primates #conservation @FordhamNYC @Ujlog_Daloa @univ_na @Ngolo_A_K @oipr225

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@azigoba @FordhamNYC @Ujlog_Daloa @univ_na @Ngolo_A_K @oipr225 Some kind of tree mushroom. We won’t know until we ask fungi experts, but they seem yummy.

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Happy Monday! This putative hybrid monkey (white-naped mangabey x olive baboon) is feeding on mushrooms in Comoé National Park, CIV. We are collecting their faecal matter to examine their DNA. #Africa #primates #conservation @FordhamNYC @Ujlog_Daloa @univ_na @Ngolo_A_K @oipr225

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The olive #colobus and the Lowe's monkey were scratching a lot in the rainy June in Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire. Correlation w/ mosquito & tsetse fly abundance? #Africa #primates #conservation @FordhamNYC @Ujlog_Daloa @univ_na @Ngolo_A_K @oipr225

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Medium-sized primates like this olive #colobus cannot always sit on a terminal branch as smaller #primates can. So, they sit on a large tree bough to pull it over and munch on young leaves. #Africa #primates #conservation @FordhamNYC @Ujlog_Daloa @univ_na @Ngolo_A_K @oipr225

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A lesser spot-nosed monkey is mobbing a fish eagle @ Comoé National Park. Clearly, this individual does not want it to be here, but fish eagles are not predators of these monkeys. #Africa #primates #conservation @FordhamNYC @Ujlog_Daloa @univ_na @Ngolo_A_K @oipr225