[1] THE VERVET MONKEY Hey! Do you want to know about the vervet monkey? Well if you do, you should definitely read this! All the stuff you could know is in this article. You’d be amazed how long they can live! Vervets can live a lot longer than most monkeys. So come on, lets READ! LOOKING GOOD Vervet monkey’s colors blend in with a lot of nature. These monkeys tend to be very territorial. They swing from tree to tree, making a loud kek kek kek kek sound to mark their territory. They are usually a dull green or a silvery gray. Their stomach is a bright blue, their tails are held up with the tip curved down. Its arms and legs are very long and exactly the same length. The male’s strontium is bright blue, that’s how they recognize them. The male is usually a bit bigger than the female. They are 18 to 26 inches tall. The male is around 5 kilograms and the female is around 3.5. Kilograms. MOVING WELL The vervet mostly bounds or gallops, but it hops to see over the grass. When they do this, they do it in slow motion because they do it slow. They are so slow because of their clumsy legs. MY HOME The vervet can live in a lot of different habitats. Towards the south they live in South Africa and towards the east they live in Somalia and Ethiopia. Their favorite habitat is acacia woodland along rivers, streams and lakes. They eat and sleep and spend a lot of the day in the treetops. Vervets can live in mountain areas up to 13,100 ft tall! They have those long claws and teeth for climbing mountains. YUM AND YUK The vervets mostly eat bark off the trees, but it’s not as easy as it looks. Some bark is sweet and some is sour and some even tasted like garbage to them! So they have to choose wisely. Besides bark, some of the most important foods are leaves shoots, fruits and seeds. their protein is: spider’s crabs and insects. Some of the other meats they eat are grubs, eggs, baby birds sometimes rodents and hares. The vervets rarely drink water! RUN RUN RUN! Vervets rarely go more than 500 yards away from trees because they are really slow runners. So when the predators find them they can run up the tree out of sight in the leaves. Their predators are: leopards, caracals, sevrilals, baboons, large eagles, crocodiles, lions and pythons. They have different calls to warn off predators. For instance, a long distant call is to warn others of a leopard. Babies learn calls quickly. BY KATE