Green Monkey
Chlorocebus sabaeus
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,125
- Most observed in
- 🇬🇲 Gambia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The green monkey (Chlorocebus sabaeus), also known as the sabaeus monkey, is an Old World monkey with golden-green fur and pale hands and feet. The tip of the tail is golden yellow as are the backs of the thighs and cheek whiskers. It does not have a distinguishing band of fur on the brow, like other Chlorocebus species, and males have a pale blue scrotum. Some authorities consider this and all of the members of the genus Chlorocebus to be a single widespread species, C. aethiops.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Green monkey”.