Peaceful co-existence, rather than war: that's how sooty mangabeys, a monkey species found in West Africa, handle infection by SIV, a relative of HIV, and avoid developing AIDS-like disease.

DNA from a female sooty mangabey (C. atys) born and maintained at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center was extracted from whole blood. The animal selected for sequencing was one of the ...

Researchers from the Helmholtz Institute in Germany have been observing this population of sooty mangabey monkeys in Ivory Coast’s Taï National Park since 2001. When the monkeys began getting ...

The researchers pinpointed the mpox source as the bushy-tailed rodent by observing a group of wild sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys) in Taï National Park (Côte d’Ivoire). In early 1993, about a third ...

A clue emerged in 2023 in Taï National Park in Côte d’Ivoire, where a team of researchers has been monitoring a group of sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys) for many years. In late January that ...

She had been watching videos of chimpanzees, which are human’s closest living relatives, and sooty mangabeys, an Old World monkey native to West and Central Africa. The footage had been ...

Officials said that the scanner detected the presence of life in a baggage. A sooty mangabey and collared mangabey were found hidden in a carton box. The monkeys are of west African origin and ...

An Indian national, who came from Bangkok, was held as he was hiding Sooty Mangabey and Collared Mangabey monkeys that had West African origin inside his check-in baggage, according to a press ...

David Cook via Flickr under CC BY-NC 2.0 In the Ivory Coast in West Africa, a baby sooty mangabey monkey fell ill. It developed red, pus-filled blisters all over its forehead, chest and legs.