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The gelada (Theropithecus gelada, Amharic: ጭላዳ, romanized: č̣əlada, Oromo: Jaldeessa daabee), sometimes called the bleeding-heart monkey or the gelada baboon, is a species of Old World monkey found only in the Ethiopian Highlands, living at elevations of 1,800–4,400 m (5,900–14,400 ft) above sea level.
A gelada reproductive unit. Jan Amora is also the place for Ethiopian monkey Gelada with large populations in the Semien Mountains. The Gelada live with other large group Monkeys. These Gelada only found in Ethiopia not other else. These Gelada mainly eat grass but the Male gelada eat other animals' meat.
It contains a single living species, the gelada (Theropithecus gelada), native to the Ethiopian Highlands. Additional species are known from fossils, including: †Theropithecus brumpti [1] [2] †Theropithecus darti †Theropithecus oswaldi [3]
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Old World monkey genera include baboons (genus Papio), red colobus (genus Piliocolobus), and macaques (genus Macaca). Common names for other Old World monkeys include the talapoin, guenon, colobus, douc (douc langur, genus Pygathrix), vervet, gelada, mangabey (a group of genera), langur, mandrill, drill, surili , patas, and proboscis monkey.
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Ethiopia. There are 279 mammal species in Ethiopia , of which five are critically endangered, eight are endangered, twenty-seven are vulnerable, and twelve are near threatened.
Theropithecus brumpti was a large terrestrial monkey that lived in the mid to late Pliocene.It is an extinct species of papionin.. This fossil primate is mostly known from skulls and mandibles found in Pliocene deposits excavated in the Shungura Formation, at the Omo River, Ethiopia.
This is a list of African type primates, containing all recent species of primates found in Africa including Madagascar.According to the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group there are currently 216 species (111 in the mainland while the 105 are found in Madagascar). [1]