Mona Monkey
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{{Taxobox
| name = Mona Monkey<ref name=msw3>{{MSW3 Groves|pages=157}}</ref>
| image = Koczkodan koroniasty.jpg
| status = LR/lc
| status_system = iucn2.3
| status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{IUCN2006|assessors=Butynski ''et al''|year=2000|id=4222|title=Cercopithecus mona|downloaded=12 May 2006}}</ref>
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]
| classis = [[Mammal]]ia
| ordo = [[Primate]]s
| familia = [[Cercopithecidae]]
| genus = ''[[Cercopithecus]]''
| species = '''''C. mona'''''
| binomial = ''Cercopithecus mona''
| binomial_authority = ([[Schreber]], 1774)
}}
The '''Mona Monkey''' (''Cercopithecus mona'') is an [[Old World monkey]] that lives throughout [[western Africa]]. This [[guenon]] lives in groups of up to 35 in arboreal regions. It mainly feeds on fruit but sometimes eats insects and leaves.
The Mona Monkey has brown [[agouti]] fur with a white rump. Its tail and legs are black and the face is blue-grey with a dark stripe across the face. The Mona Monkey carries food in cheek pouches.
==External links==
*[http://origin.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol9no10/02-0667.htm ''Weissella confusa'' Infection in Primate (''Cercopithecus mona'')]
==References==
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*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/311.shtml BBC Science and Nature]
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[[Category:Mammals of Africa]]
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