Kipunji  (Rungwecebus kipunji)

Authentication

Authenticated (21/12/2005) by Dr. Tim Davenport, Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) Southern Rift and Southern Highlands Conservation Programmes, and co-discoverer of the highland mangabey.
http://www.wcs.org

Glossary

  • Arboreal: living in trees.
  • Endemic: a species or taxonomic group that is only found in one particular country or geographic area.

References

  1. Jones, T., Ehardt, C.L., Butynski, T.M., Davenport, T.R.B., Mpunga, N.E., Machaga, S.J. and De Luca, D.W. (2005) The Highland Mangabey Lophocebus kipunji: A New Species of African Monkey. Science, 308: 1161 - 1164. Available at: http://www.iucn.org/webfiles/doc/SSC/SSCwebsite/News/Highland_Mangabey_Science_2005_Jones_et_al.pdf
  2. Davenport, T.R.B., Stanley, W.T., Sargis, E.J., De Luca, D.W., Mpunga, N.E., Machaga, S.J. and Olsen, L.E. (2006) A New Genus of African Monkey, Rungwecebus: Morphology, Ecology, and Molecular Phylogenetics. Science, 312: 1378 - 1381.
  3. IUCN Red List (June, 2009)
    http://www.redlist.org
  4. Wildlife Conservation Society (December, 2005)
    http://www.wcs.org/international/Africa/Tanzania/highlandmangabey
  5. National Science Foundation (December, 2005)
    http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=104165&org=NSF
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