Vervet Monkey Tracking Rwanda

Among the places in Africa to find the Vervet Monkey includes Rwanda in Nyungwe Forest National Park and Akagera National Park.

Please note that there are no vervet monkey treks, you just meet them and enjoy.

They are also like the baboon’s raid crops and once again enter homes to look for food. They have also got black face mask and the rest of the body is grey.

Vervet monkeys in Rwanda can survive 12 years in the wild and up to 24 years in captivity. The vervet monkey eats a primarily herbivorous diet, living mostly on wild fruits, flowers, leaves, seeds, and seed pods.

Vervet Monkey in Rwanda

The vervet monkey has a vivid blue scrotum which pales when the animal falls in social rank. … Thus the blue colour is due to Tyndall scattering over a layer of melanin.

High pitched squeals indicate distress and vervet monkeys can communicate the presence of different predators by using different calls. … For example, leopard alarms are short tonal calls to which vervet monkeys respond by climbing into trees!

When males reach sexual maturity, they move to a neighboring group. Often, males will move with a brother or peer, presumably for protection against aggression by males and females of the resident group. Groups that had previously transferred males show significantly less aggression upon the arrival of another male. In almost every case, males migrate to adjacent groups.

Females remain in their groups throughout life. Separate dominance hierarchies are found for each sex. Male hierarchies are determined by age, tenure in the group, fighting abilities, and allies, while female hierarchies are dependent on maternal social status.