Golden Monkey

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Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. Rate This. Females give birth every two years. A newborn baby is well-developed.

It comes with its total fur and open eyes. During the first few months, the baby is nursed by its mother.

By the end of this period, the female gradually minimizes the nursing and eventually stops to produce a new young.

Once becoming sexually mature, the baby will leave its natal group. Most of threats to the population of this species are associated with human activity.

Thus, the Golden monkeys suffer from habitat disturbance and are often caught in snares. These animals are also threatened by illegal destruction of their bamboo habitat.

Golden Monkey. Cercopithecus kandti. Population size. Life Span. Photos with Golden Monkey. Geography Continents. Sub-Saharan Africa.

Biome Tropical moist forests. Tropical savanna. Climate zones Tropical. Habits and Lifestyle Golden monkeys are highly social animals, forming groups of 30 - 80 individuals.

As for Golden monkeys, they usually live in packs of individuals. They have been known to live in smaller groups of only a few individuals.

Out of this group, there is usually only one male! The females tend to guard one territorial region while the males may mate and then travel pack-to-pack.

However, it is actually the female that must initiate the mating process. After that, it takes five months of gestation for a baby golden monkey to be born.

Interestingly, the baby Golden is born with all of its fur and wide-open eyes! After birth, the mother will care for her infant for two years until it reaches the age of independence.

After this, the male Goldens will leave their pack, while the females will typically live out the duration of its life in the group it was born in.

In addition to relying on bamboo for nutrition, the Golden monkey also uses bamboo to craft little homes. Scientists have observed Golden monkeys using calls for a variety of purposes.

Males primarily use their calls as signs of aggression and territorial defensiveness, while female calls have more social functions, such as identifying themselves as part of a group.

The young of the group will use calls to demonstrate their submissiveness. In addition to vocalizations, Golden monkeys have highly emotive features and are known to communicate with each other through these facial expressions.

The Golden monkey is closely related to several other species native to Uganda. Also in the Cercopithecus family are.

While these species all belong to the same genus, their habitats, appearances, and social lives vary greatly.

The monkeys often sleep in small subgroups of four, at the top of bamboo plants. They will often use a dense bamboo plant, or a combination of several bamboo plants that weave together to make a sufficient foundation for sleep.

The golden monkey will often feed near the sleeping area and return to this same sleeping location day after day. The golden monkey has a diet that consists primarily of young bamboo leaves, fruits, bamboo branchlets, bamboo shoots, invertebrates, flowers, and shrubs.

However, the golden monkey is an opportunistic feeder and its diet can easily be influenced by the availability of fruit.

During seasons where ripe fruit is available, the golden monkey tends to feed more on fruit. The golden monkey may also feed on various flowers and shrubs when they are available.

Illegal activities that harm the ecosystem such as tree extraction and bamboo removal are serious threats.

Some research indicates that tree removal poses a more serious risk. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Not to be confused with Golden snub-nosed monkey.

This article is about the monkey. For the tea, see Golden Monkey tea. Conservation status.