The Blue Nile patas monkey[1], also known as Heuglin’s patas monkey, is an Old-World monkey endemic to Africa along the Blue Nile Valley in Sudan, Ethiopia, and possibly South Sudan.
- These African primates have shaggy reddish fur and black faces and noses. These monkeys resemble a greyhound in structure.
- The belly is white, as are the feet and legs. They have a slender bodies, long legs for four-legged locomotion, and a prominent thorax.
- In addition, the Blue Nile patas monkey has white hairs on the upper lip that form the shape of a handlebar mustache.
- This, combined with the lack of a stripe between the ear and eye in other Erythrocebus species, sets it apart from the rest of the genus.
