the notorious pedestrian and at the same time the giant among the sea-cats is the hussar-monkey.
Shape it got its name because of its splendidly brown-red back-coloring, that reminds of a hussar-jacket. Also an impressive sideburns is not missing. The adaptation to the life on the ground shirks above all in the long limbs, shortened hands and feet and the dog-nicely working walk as well as. Gallop, with which these Erdmeerkatzen speeds of over 50 hour-kilometers reach, from. So, they hurry some automobile in the steppe from it. they clearly avoid tree-existed terrains and climb only gezwungenermaßen a tree once.
Hussar-monkeys become heavily up to 25 kg and reach lengths of good 85 cm, and its tail becomes long up to 75 cm once again.
Way of life In herds of approximately one dozen animals, the hussars wander through the open steppes and savannas of means-Africa of Senegal until Ethiopia, from Somaliland until Tanganjika. There are two types of groups: assorted groups, in which an adult male, who quotes the troop, lives beside the females, children and teenagers, as well as pure men's-groups, that consist of young-men and expelled former group leaders.
Food-acquisition With the food-search, root-parts of grass-tufts are removed durchgemustert, come off also grass, and the insects and others there living animals carries off. The poison-thorns are taken away the scorpions frequent in some steppes carefully before the consumption. Of course, also plant-seeds, fruits and tubers are eaten.
At night, the hussar-monkeys spread out as well as. hides in the high steppe-grass, because different puts itself Pat-ace only unwillingly they than the baboons to the fight but escapes sooner. Driven only in the narrowness, the hussar uses its powerful, pointed cuspids as effective weapon.
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