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Ray Wilson
Bird & Wildlife Photography
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Green Vervet Monkey
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Cercopithecus sabaeus
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Senegambia Hotel, The Gambia - January 2003
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| Vervet Monkeys utter a wide variety of vocalisations and could almost be said to have a primitive language, since each of them convey a different meaning. For example, they have different alarm calls depending on the nature of the threat. The call made when a hawk or eagle is spotted is different from that of a large ground-based threat, which in turn is different from the alarm call for a snake. |
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