23 May 2025

Southern patas monkey rediscovered!

First Video of the ‘Critically Endangered’ Southern Patas Monkey

After Kruger National Park in South Africa, Serengeti National Park in northwestern Tanzania receives more tourists each year (about 500,000) than any other national park in Africa. Few of these many visitors are aware that there is a large mammal in Serengeti National Park that is seldom listed as being present, is infrequently encountered, and rarely photographed. This mammal is the Southern Patas Monkey (Erythrocebus baumstarki), a species that the IUCN Red List recognises as ‘Critically Endangered’. This monkey is profiled in Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates 2023-2025. 

On 10 May 2025, during a primate survey, we encountered a group of at least 14 Southern Patas Monkeys in the western Serengeti National Park. The videos we took might be the first of a social group of this species. Please go to: https://www.wildsolutions.nl/rediscovered/ for the full story and to watch the video.

Have YOU seen this monkey?! …we like to know all about it! Please go to www.wildsolutions.nl/patas_tanzania. If you like to know more about this unique primate…click here

‘Critically Endangered’ Southern Patas Monkey Erythrocebus baumstarki rediscovered in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Photograph by Yvonne A. de Jong and Thomas M. Butynski, wildsolutions.nl

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WildSolutions
I am a Kenya-based Dutch primatologist who has worked in Africa since 2001. I am the co-leader of the Eastern Africa Primate Diversity and Conservation Program, member of four IUCN/SSC Specialist Groups (Primates, Antelopes Afrotheria and Wild Pigs), member of the Nocturnal Primate Research Group at Oxford Brookes University, collaborating Scientist of the National Museums of Kenya and Institute of Primate Research in Nairobi and member of the Primate Task Force of the Kenya Wildlife Service. My main research focus is the biogeography, diversity and conservation of eastern Africa’s primates and several other groups of large mammals, including antelopes and warthogs. Read my publications, blogs and news items on wildsolutions.nl, Researchgate  and iNaturalist.
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