#theropithecus

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Name: Theropithecus brumpti

Diet: herbivore

Habitat: savannas, grasslands, woodlands, rocky hills

Location: Hollow Earth

[katborg82]

Theropithecus oswaldi - "Oswald's Beast Ape"

A massive extinct monkey from Pleistocene Africa and Eurasia. It is estimated to have been more than double the size of its modern relative, the Gelada monkey (Theropithecus gelada), the last surviving species of Theropithecus.

[animalids]

Gelada (Theropithecus gelada)

Photo by Sylvain Cordier

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a Gelada (Theropithecus gelada) troop in Gemassa Gedal, Ethiopia

by Nik Borrow

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Gelada (Theropithecus gelada)

Photo by Jeffrey Kerby & Trevor Beck Frost

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Gelada baboons in the Simien Mountains, one of the oldest natural Unesco world heritage sites. The species is endemic to Ethiopia

Photograph: Henning Neuhaus

(via The week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian)

[pan-troglodytes]

The rhythmic vocal sounds made by lip smacking in wild Gelada monkeys have similarities to human speech, a new University of Michigan study shows.

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