Monkey Business in Tanzania Metal Print

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Just sitting all alone on the top of a termite mound in Serengeti National Park, this vervet monkey looked as if he was thinking long and hard about something! The vervet monkey is an Old World monkey of the family Cercopithecidae native to Africa. Vervets were introduced to Florida, St. Kitts and Nevis, Barbados, and Cape Verde. These mostly herbivorous monkeys have black faces and grey body hair color, ranging in body length from about 16 in for females to about 20 in for males. They are quite common in Tanzania and other African countries and can be comical to observe, especially in groups. I liked the black and white version of this image better than the color one because it seems to add to the soberness of "deep thought" that this little guy was entertaining.

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