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.

Sooty mangabeys, a type of African monkey, have intrigued scientists for years because they can survive infection by SIV, a relative of HIV, and not succumb to AIDS. Researchers have identified a ...

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 have identified a way some of sooty mangabeys' immune cells resist infection: they close the gates that SIV and HIV use to get into the cell. The findings may lead to strategies to ...

[17] sooty mangabeys and African green monkeys preserve central memory T cells that are the replenishing subpopulation of effector memory and activated CD4 T cells [18] by downregulation of HIV-1 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Black Crested Mangabeys are the first animal you see walking into the Lake Superior Zoo. This is purposeful since they’re social animals. Zookeeper Kelli Carroll explains, “They love ...

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 ...

CHENNAI: Customs officers at Chennai airport on Monday seized two mangabey monkeys from an Indian passenger who smuggled them from Thailand. The seized animals are a sooty mangabey and a collared ...

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.