Tantalus Monkey Chlorocebus tantalus

The Tantalus or Tantalus Monkey ranges from Ghana in West Africa through to South Sudan in the east. It is closely related to the similar Grivet, Vervet, Malbrouck and Green (Sabaeus) monkeys, which are sometimes treated as subspecies and sometimes as separate species in the Chlorocebus genus. They were all previously called Cercopithecus aethiops and the name Vervet or African Green was used for the all. Tantalus has 3 subspecies.

Diet includes leaves, fruit, seeds, flowers, eggs, small rodents and insects. They live in large, hierarchical groups which include several adult males. They are social and communicative and have different sounds for different meanings including alarm calls which identify the type of threat or predator.