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It is an arboreal and diurnal primate that lives in the forests of southern Nigeria. It should not be confused with the closely related species, the white-throated guenon (Cercopithecus erythrogaster), which occurs in Nigeria and Benin. Sclater's guenon was formerly classified as a subspecies of the red-eared guenon (C. erythrotis). [2]
Videos of monkeys being tortured or abused have been commonly uploaded to social media platforms such as YouTube and Facebook. [1] [4] According to a September 2021–May 2023 study by Asia for Animals’ Social Media Animal Cruelty Coalition (SMACC), videos by pet macaque owners had a total of 12.05 billion views online, with 12 percent of these videos involving intentional physical torture ...
YouTube, Facebook and other sites remove the videos with graphic content, but scores of other clips of cute monkeys jumping and playing remain, generating thousands of views and subscribers.
In 2021, a US-based private “monkey haters” online group, where members paid to have baby monkeys tortured and killed on camera in Indonesia was closed down, but other extreme videos have ...
Specifically, to count as a legitimate view, a user must intentionally initiate the playback of the video and play at least 30 seconds of the video (or the entire video for shorter videos). Additionally, while replays count as views, there is a limit of 4 or 5 views per IP address during a 24-hour period, after which point, no further views ...
The white-throated monkey or White-throated guenon, (Cercopithecus erythrogaster), ranks among the planet's severely endangered primates. [19] Despite being safeguarded by Nigeria's Endangered Species Decree No. 11 of 1985, it receives conservation and protection exclusively within national parks, game reserves, and wildlife sanctuaries. [20]
The Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti) is a subspecies of the common chimpanzee which inhabits the rainforest along the border of Nigeria and Cameroon. Male Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees can weigh up to 70 kilos with a body length of up to 1.2 metres and a height of 1.3 metres. Females are significantly smaller.
Animal Planet says, "These are some of the only tool-using wild monkeys in the world." So, the adorable interaction makes sense -- but seeing that level of care is still pretty amazing.