Sooty Mangabey Male Skull Replica

Description

Sooty mangabey male skull replica measures 5.5 x 3.2 x 3.4 inches. The Cercocebus atys skull is museum-quality polyurethane resin cast from California Academy of Sciences specimen. 2-part skull (separate cranium and mandible). 1:1 scale. Made in USA.

Sooty mangabeys come from Africa. Coastal margins from Senegal down to the Ivory Coast make up their geographical range.

Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, and Sierra Leone also contain wild populations. Old growth, secondary, flooded, dry, swamp, mangrove and gallery forests serve as their main habitats. Local farmland also provides resources for them.

Gray fur covers the back of this primate. Lighter fur shades the chest and stomach. Grayish pink skin covers the face. Darker fur grows along the forehead and ears. They have exceptionally strong molars.

Group travel and foraging take up about 75 percent of their overall time. Large, mixed groups of 70 to 120 individuals form strict linear dominance hierarchies. High-ranking females enjoy central safety, and they spend less time searching or food.

Varied, acoustically distinct alarm calls warn the group about specific predator types. Nearby monkeys listen to these calls to avoid danger. Leopards, crowned eagles, chimpanzees, Gaboon vipers, and humans hunt them regularly. Logging, expanding agriculture, and intense overhunting cause their wild numbers to drop.

Nutritious nuts and seeds make up over 55 percent of their regular meals. Sweet fruit and small invertebrates provide the rest of their nutrition. Clever foraging individuals scavenge the hard nut remains cracked by chimpanzees and red river hogs.

Scientific Classification

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Mammalia
• Order: Primates
• Suborder: Haplorhini
• Infraorder: Simiiformes
• Family: Cercopithecidae
• Genus: Cercocebus
• Species: C. atys
• Binomial name: Cercocebus atys (Audebert, 1797)
• Conservation status: Vunerable (IUCN 3.1)

Sally, the sassy mangabey female skull replica has opened her nut factory off every major highway in the world. She is super successful. Scott, the sooty mangabey male skull, stocks all of her stuffed shelves in the wee hours of the night.

Glenn, the gelada baboon male skull replica, loves the chocolate covered yoguart cherries, and snacks on them while helping Scott stock the shelves. He does not feel a bit of guilt doing so.

Wallace, the woolly monkey skull replica, eats at least one entire container of honey-roasted cashew nuts everyday. They are his favorite.

At break-time, all the employees sit hang around and tell nut jokes, like why did the cashew hire a personal trainer? He wanted to get in peak shape he could finally become a tough nut to crack!