Chlorocebus aethiops Got Distracted By Visitors

Chlorocebus aethiops monkeys were happy this morning , they love to see visitors as they bring carrots to them , they raise their hands to visitors for carrots .Show more

The grivet is occasionally hunted as bushmeat. They are killed for either commercial or subsistence purposes. Although not endangered, it is threatened through destruction of habitat by way of disappearing forests. It is preyed on by large snakes, leopards, humans and sometimes baboons.

The grivet is one of five species of monkey known to have been kept in ancient Egypt, the others being the hamadryas baboon, the olive baboon, the patas monkey and the barbary macaque. Grivets were imported from the land of Punt, as attested in paintings and in the Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor.

They were sometimes traded as far afield as Assyria. They are rarer in representations than baboons and, unlike baboons, do not seem to have borne individual names.