🐒Vervet monkey
The vervet monkey, or simply vervet, is an Old World monkey of the family Cercopithecidae native to Africa. The term "vervet" is also used to refer to all the members of the genus Chlorocebus. The five distinct subspecies can be found mostly throughout Southern Africa, as well as some of the eastern countries. These mostly herbivorous monkeys have black faces and grey body hair color, ranging in body length from about 40 cm (16 in) for females, to about 50 cm (20 in) for males.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- Body mass
- 5.1 kg
- Body length
- 0.66 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 46 years
Everything we know about the Vervet monkey
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass5.1 kgCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length0.66 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass65 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan46 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length11 yearsestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity4.3 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation168 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter size1COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelOmnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density42 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l5.1 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Vervet monkey yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderPrimates
- ›familyCercopithecidae
- ›genusChlorocebus
- ›speciesChlorocebus pygerythrus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- familyCercopithecidae
- subfamilyCercopithecinae
- genusChlorocebus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- suborderHaplorrhini
- infraorderSimiiformes
- superfamilyCercopithecoidea
- familyCercopithecidae
- subfamilyCercopithecinae
- genusChlorocebus
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