Coat mangabelling

Coat mangabelling

We are delighted that the Wingert and Harders family have taken on the sponsorship of the mantled mangabey (Lophocebus albigena).

In groups of 5-30 individuals, mantled mangabeys(Lophocebus albigena) forage in the treetops of the Central African lowland rainforests and swamps from Cameroon to the western Republic of Congo: mainly fruits and seeds, and to a lesser extent also leaves, flowers and insects. The males in particular have distinctive throat pouches, which are important for communication: They use loud cries to announce their whereabouts to other groups and mark out their territory in this way.

Systematists now count four different species among the "mantled mangabeys", which were previously described together as a single species. All four species belong to the genus of black mangabeys (Lophocebus), which are now known to be more closely related to baboons and geladas than to their namesakes, the white-lid mangabeys (genus: Cercocebus).