#guenon

[vintagewildlife]

Spot-nosed guenon By: Nina Leen From: Wild, Wild World of Animals: Monkeys & Apes 1976

[dougdimmadodo]

Putty-Nosed Monkey (Cercopithecus nictitans)

Family: "Old World" Monkey Family (Cercopithecidae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Near Threatened

Named for the distinctive white blotch over its nose, the Putty-Nosed Monkey is a small species of guenon (a diverse group of monkeys native to Sub-Saharan Africa) found across western Africa from Ghana to as far south as the DOC. Each species of guenon exhibits unique facial markings, and as there are many regions in which multiple guenon species coexist (with at least 5 other guenons occurring within the Putty-Nosed Monkey's range) it has been suggested that these distinctive facial features may serve to aid guenons in distinguishing members of their own species from those of related species. Typically found in humid forests habitats and particularly associated with forest edges, Putty-Nosed Monkeys feed on fruit, flowers, seeds and smaller animals and live in relatively small groups consisting of a single adult male, a group of adult females and their young offspring. When active members of this species are highly vocal, and studies examining their vocalisations have not only suggested that they string together multiple shorter calls to convey information through longer, more complex "sentences", but have also suggested that all guenon species seem to understand the meaning of one anothers' calls, implying the existence of a sort of "universal guenon language."

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Image Source: A Putty-Nosed Monkey pictured near the Ogooué river in western Gabon, taken by iNaturalist user david_taylor.

[ompyrean]

You are not lost. You're climbing.

ompyrean.com

[tyto-furcata]

Red-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ascanius) eating a flower.

8/19/2024 San Diego Zoo, California

[heriugena]

"When we speak of the different degrees of individual manifestation, it should be readily understood that they correspond with the degrees of universal manifestation, by reason of the basic analogy between the 'macrocosm' and the 'microcosm' [...]. This will be still better understood if one remembers that all manifested beings alike are subject to the general conditions which limit the states of existence in which they are placed; if we cannot, when considering any given being, really isolate one state of that being from the whole composed of all the other states among which it is situated hierarchically at a given level, no more can we, from another point of view, isolate that state from all that belongs, not to the same being, but to the same degree of universal Existence; And thus all appears linked together in various different ways, both within manifestation itself and also insofar as the latter, forming a single whole in its indefinite multiplicity, is attached to its principle, that is, to Being, and through Being to the Supreme Principle. Multiplicity, once it is a possibility, exists according to its own mode, but this mode is illusory, in the sense we have already ascribed to that word (that of a lesser reality), because the very existence of this multiplicity is based upon unity, from which it is derived and within which it is principially contained."

[is-the-primate-vid-cute]

This is the putty nosed monkey! A species of guenon that can live up to 31 years in captivity, this monkey is known for its cheek pouches which can hold as much food as the stomach for a constant supply of handy snack storage. Read about them here.

[2t2r]

Les masques d'animaux de Guy-Pierre Fauconnet

Nouvel article publié sur https://www.2tout2rien.fr/les-masques-danimaux-de-guy-pierre-fauconnet/

Les masques d'animaux de Guy-Pierre Fauconnet

[jorgedaburgos]

"Se il mondo moderno subisce una crisi, ciò che così si vuole esprimere è che esso è giunto ad un punto critico o, in altri termini, che a breve scadenza ... in un modo più o meno brusco ... dovrà inevitabilmente sopravvivere un mutamento di orientazione."