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Blue monkey / Cercopithecus mitis / diademed monkey, at Mount Meru's Momella Gate, Arusha National Park, Tanzania, East Africa.

A female blue monkey (Cercopithecus mitis), aka the diademed monkey, at Mount Meru's Momella Gate in Arusha National Park, Tanzania, East Africa. The blue monkey is a species of Old World monkey native to Central and East Africa, ranging from the upper Congo River basin east to the East African Rift and south to northern Angola and Zambia. It is mainly olive or grey. The cap, feet, and front legs appear blackish. The face is dark with a pale or yellowish patch on the forehead, appearing like a diadem or headband. The small amount of hair on its face might sometimes appear blueish. Typical sizes range from 50 to 65 cm in length, (not including the tail, which is almost as long as the rest of the animal), with females weighing a little over 4 kg and males up to 8 kg. It eats fruits, figs, insects, leaves, twigs, and flowers. // Mount Meru is a dormant stratovolcano in Arusha National Park, in the southeast Arusha Region, Tanzania, East Africa. At a height of 4,562 meters (14,968 ft), it is the fifth-highest mountain of Africa. It's the second-highest mountain in Tanzania, after Mount Kilimanjaro (which is visible 70 kilometers or 43 mi to the east). We climbed Mount Meru via the Momella route, starting at Momella gate on the eastern flank. Much of the mountain's height was lost about 7,800 years ago due to a summit collapse. Mount Meru's caldera is 2.2 miles (3.5 km) wide and most recently had a minor eruption in 1910. The movie Hatari! was filmed at the foot of Mount Meru.

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A female blue monkey (Cercopithecus mitis), aka the diademed monkey, at Mount Meru's Momella Gate in Arusha National Park, Tanzania, East Africa. The blue monkey is a species of Old World monkey native to Central and East Africa, ranging from the upper Congo River basin east to the East African Rift and south to northern Angola and Zambia. It is mainly olive or grey. The cap, feet, and front legs appear blackish. The face is dark with a pale or yellowish patch on the forehead, appearing like a diadem or headband. The small amount of hair on its face might sometimes appear blueish. Typical sizes range from 50 to 65 cm in length, (not including the tail, which is almost as long as the rest of the animal), with females weighing a little over 4 kg and males up to 8 kg. It eats fruits, figs, insects, leaves, twigs, and flowers. // Mount Meru is a dormant stratovolcano in Arusha National Park, in the southeast Arusha Region, Tanzania, East Africa. At a height of 4,562 meters (14,968 ft), it is the fifth-highest mountain of Africa. It's the second-highest mountain in Tanzania, after Mount Kilimanjaro (which is visible 70 kilometers or 43 mi to the east). We climbed Mount Meru via the Momella route, starting at Momella gate on the eastern flank. Much of the mountain's height was lost about 7,800 years ago due to a summit collapse. Mount Meru's caldera is 2.2 miles (3.5 km) wide and most recently had a minor eruption in 1910. The movie Hatari! was filmed at the foot of Mount Meru.
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