Moustached Guenon Characteristics | Cercopithecus Cephus Diet & Facts

Kingdom	Order	Family	Genus	Species
Animalia	Primates	Cercopithecidae	Cercopithecus	Cercopithecus cephus

Common Name: Moustached Guenon
Taxonomy Classification Year: 1758
Monkey Size: 52 to 52 cm (20.47 to 20.47 in)
Skin Color(s): Blackish-brown
Habitat: Rainforest
Diet: Herbivorous
Native Countries: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon

Moustached Guenon Distribution

Moustached Guenon Characteristics

The mustached monkey^[1] or moustached guenon (Cercopithecus cephus) is a primate species in the Cercopithecidae family.

It has a colorful blue-to-purple face with a bluish-white crescent-shaped stripe below the bare nose.
Underneath this “mustache” are black hairs at the edge of the upper lip and bushy bright yellow sideburns on either side of the face.
The ears are black, and the rest of the head is covered with black-brown hair.
This black-brown hair extends dorsally and laterally, and the ventral region has ash-gray hair.
The tail, longer than the rest of the body, is non-prehensile and draped in copper-red fur.

What Do Moustached Guenons Eat?

The Moustached Guenon feeds on these plant sources^[¶]:

What Eats Moustached Guenons?

In the wild, the primary predators of Moustached guenons are Leopards (Panthera pardus)^[§]

Moustached Guenon Facts

Moustached monkeys take regular paths through the branches, with each monkey following the next along the same path.
Their sure-footedness through arboreal habitats in rapid flight makes them remarkable tree-to-tree jumpers.
If the females in a group are unhappy with a male or female intrusion, they will defend the group and chase the lone intruder away.
The moustached monkey uses a soft trill that oscillates in a descending pitch.
They use gazing as a threat display. In this case, a monkey fixes its gaze on another individual with eyebrows raised, scalp pulled back, and facial skin pulled back.

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Key References

^[1] – “Moustached Guenon-Encyclopedia of Life”. Accessed October 12, 2022. Link.
^[¶] – Fricke, E.C., Svenning, J. Accelerating homogenization of the global plant-frugivore meta-network. Nature 585, 74-78 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2640-y.
^[¶] – Seltzer, Carrie; Wysocki, William; Palacios, Melissa; Eickhoff, Anna; Pilla, Hannah; Aungst, Jordan; Mercer, Aaron; Quicho, Jamie; Voss, Neil; Xu, Man; J. Ndangalasi, Henry; C. Lovett, Jon; J. Cordeiro, Norbert (2015): Plant-animal interactions from Africa. figshare. https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1526128. De Boer, W.F. and Ntumi, C.P. and Correia, A.U. and Mafuca, J.M., 2000. Diet and distribution of elephant in the Maputo Elephant Reserve; Mozambique. African Journal of Ecology, 38(3), pp.188-201. https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/2231424
^[§] – Middleton, O.S, Svensson, H, Scharlemann, J.P.W, Faurby, S, Sandom, C.J. CarniDIET 1.0: A database of terrestrial carnivorous mammal diets. Global Ecology and Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13296. Craig, Christie A., Eleanor I. Brassine, and Daniel M. Parker. “A record of cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) diet in the Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana.” African Journal of Ecology 55.4 (2017): 697-700.

Moustached Guenon