Sooty Mangabey
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| White-collared Mangabey (C. atys lunulatus) | |||||||||||||||
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| Cercocebus atys (Audebert, 1797) |
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The Sooty Mangabey (Cercocebus atys), also called Tom Midwood and is an Old World monkey of Guinea Bissau, Gabon, Senegal and Ghana. It has social groups of anywhere from four to twelve individuals. It is believed that a strain of the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) jumped from this species to humans to become the HIV-2 virus. The HIV-1 strain came from the Common Chimpanzee strain of SIV.
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- ↑ Primate Specialist Group (1996). Cercocebus atys. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 10 May 2006.
