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Boo at the Zoo!
October 29 and October 30 from 7pm until 10pm each night. Kids trick or treat in the zoo for free, a...Read More Here
Added: 2010-08-12
Baby African Leopards born!
The zoo will be having a Leopard Photo Fundraiser to be announced in a few weeks. Photos will be $25...Read More Here
Added: 2010-08-12
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White Capped Mangabey 
Habitat:   Subsaharan West African tropical forests
Size:   26 inch body and approximately the same length tai
Weight:   20-25 lbs
Food:   Plants, insects, and bird eggs

Description:   
The word "Mangabey": "Mangabey" comes from "Mangaby," a region of Madagascar. Mangabeys are some of the most rare and endangered monkeys on Earth. Very little information has been published on mangabeys and since 1880 it has been reported only 84 individuals were brought to North America and only 9 captive births have been reported. These large, forest-living monkeys are found only in Africa. They look somewhat like guenons but are bigger. Local people call some of them "the ones with the thin waist" or "four-eyed monkeys" because some mangabey species have bright white eyelids. Taxonomists have put mangabeys into two separate genera: white-eyelid mangabeys Cerocebus sp. and crested mangabeys Lophocebus sp., based on physical differences. White-eyelid mangabeys are most closely related to mandrills and drills, and the males are much larger than the females; crested mangabeys are more closely related to baboons and geladas and both males and females are about the same size. All mangabeys have tails that are longer than their bodies, providing balance for them as they scamper through the rain forest canopy. The mangabey lives in small groups of 4 to 12 individuals, mostly on the ground and among the lower layers of the forest. It moves nimbly among the branches of trees, but its movements are always unhurried and sure-footed. The tail is partly prehensile and helps it to hold onto branches. It is a very social animal, and the group has a highly developed communications system, which functions by means of shrieks and other sounds as well as by means of expressive facial gestures. Its main enemy is the leopard.
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