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Sooty Mangabey
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| Cercocebus atys (Audebert, 1797) |
The Sooty Mangabey (Cercocebus atys), also called the White-collared Mangabey, is an Old World monkey of Guinea Bissau, Gabon, and Côte d'Ivoire. It has social groups of anywhere from four to twelve individuals. It is believed that a strain of the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) jumped from this species to humans to become the HIV-2 virus. The HIV-1 strain came from the Common Chimpanzee strain of SIV.
The Sooty Mangabey can contract leprosy, as can humans, the Nine-banded Armadillo, the Common Chimpanzee, and the Crab-eating Macaque.[3]
There are two subspecies of this mangabey:
- Cercocebus atys atys
- Cercocebus atys lunulatus
- ^ Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 153. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
- ^ Primate Specialist Group (1996). Cercocebus atys. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 10 May 2006.
- ^ Rojas-Espinosa O, Løvik M (2001). "Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepraemurium infections in domestic and wild animals". Rev. sci. tech. Off. int. Epiz. 20 (1): 219-51. PMID 11288514.
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