Smith’s Dik-Dik Madoqua (guentheri) smithii are monogamous and territorial. They live in pairs with one or two of their offspring. Territorial boundaries are typically marked with scent from their preorbital and pedal glands, and by urine and dung middens. Both sexes mark their territory.
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African Primates 19(1): 45-52 (2025)
By Megan Claase¹, Thomas M. Butynski², Willem Krynauw¹, Matthias de Beenhouwer³, Mike Fay¹, and Yvonne A. de Jong²
¹Boma and Badingilo National Parks, African Parks, Juba, South Sudan
²Eastern Africa Primate Diversity and Conservation Program, Nanyuki, Kenya
³African Parks Network, Johannesburg, South Africa
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First Video of the ‘Critically Endangered’ Southern Patas Monkey
After Kruger National Park in South Africa, Serengeti National Park in northwestern Tanzania receives more tourists each year (about 500,000) than any other national park in Africa. Few of these many visitors are aware that there is a large mammal in Serengeti National Park that is seldom listed as being present, is infrequently encountered, and rarely photographed. This mammal is the Southern Patas Monkey (Erythrocebus baumstarki), a species that the IUCN Red List recognises as ‘Critically Endangered’. This monkey is profiled in Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates 2023-2025.
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The Eastern Africa Primate Diversity and Conservation Program and Grumeti Fund started a search for the ‘Critically Endangered’ Southern patas monkey in the Serengeti Ecosystem. Have you seen this monkey? Do you want to know more about this unique primate? Click here!
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The Subantarctic fur seal Arctocephalus tropicalis (J. E. Gray, 1872) is a widespread species that occurs in sub-Antarctic waters, north of the Antarctic Polar Front/Antarctic Convergence, from the southern Atlantic Ocean and southern Indian Ocean eastwards to the southwestern Pacific Ocean. While there have been many vagrant A. tropicalis in South Africa, there is little knowledge of their occurrence on the east coast of Africa to the north of South Africa. In this paper we review what is known concerning the occurrence of A. tropicalis along the coast of East Africa (i.e., Kenya and Tanzania), and discuss two records of vagrant A. tropicalis for Kenya. This is a new superfamily (Pinnipedia), family (Otariidae), genus (Arctocephalus), and species of large carnivorous mammal for the country.
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