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Cercopithecus
pygerythrus (Vervet monkey)
blouaap, blou-aap [Afrikaans];
Sudafrika Grünmeerkatze [German];
vervet [French];
tumbili, ngedere [Swahili];
inkawu, ikgabu ehlaza [isiNdebele];
inkawu [isiXhosa] [isiZulu];
kgabo [Sepedi];
kgabo, khabo [Sesotho];
kgabo, kgatla [Setswana];
tsoko, shoko [Shona];
ngobiyane, ingobiyane, inkawu [siSwati];
hacha, hacha, nkawu, ritoho, ritohwe [Xitsonga];
thoho, thobo [Tshivenda];
njoko [Lozi];
unshoko [Yei]
Life
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Eukaryotes >
Opisthokonta >
Metazoa (animals) > Bilateria > Deuterostomia >
Chordata > Craniata > Vertebrata (vertebrates) >
Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates) > Teleostomi (teleost
fish) > Osteichthyes (bony fish) > Class:
Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish) > Stegocephalia
(terrestrial vertebrates) > Reptiliomorpha > Amniota >
Synapsida (mammal-like reptiles) > Therapsida > Theriodontia
> Cynodontia > Mammalia (mammals)
> Placentalia (placental mammals) >
Euarchontaglires > Euarchonta > Primates > Family:
Cercopithecidae (monkeys and baboons)
> Subfamily: Cercopthecinae
Ecological
interactions
Nephila
and
orb web spiders. Quote from South African
National Survey of Arachnida (SANSA) Newsletter 11 &
12 (2010)(editors A. Dippenaar-Schoeman and C.
Haddad). "Elsa van Niekerk, the graphic artist at
ARC-PPRI, is involved in the rehabilitation of wild
animals and she has observed some very interesting
behaviour of her vervet monkeys. They love feeding
on large golden orb-web spiders. The spiders are
grabbed out of the web (sometimes two monkeys join
forces to pull it off successfully) and the spider
is immediately put in their mouths with the legs
sticking out. The older individuals train the
younger ones how to do it. She has now also seen how
they steal insects out of the orb-webs. If this is a
general behaviour they might have an effect on
golden orb-web spider numbers in areas."
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