Agile Mangabey
Cercocebus agilis
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 59
- Most observed in
- 🇨🇫 Central African Republic
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The agile mangabey (Cercocebus agilis) is an Old World monkey of the white-eyelid mangabey group found in swampy forests of Central Africa in Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, and DR Congo. Until 1978, it was considered a subspecies of the Tana River mangabey (C. galeritus). More recently, the golden-bellied mangabey (C. chrysogaster) has been considered a separate species instead of a subspecies of the agile mangabey.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Agile mangabey”.