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title: "Groene meerkat"
description: "Chlorocebus aethiops — Zoogdieren. The grivet (Chlorocebus aethiops) is an Old World monkey with long white tufts of hair along the sides of its face."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/grivet-monkey
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Groene meerkat

> Chlorocebus aethiops — Zoogdieren. The grivet (Chlorocebus aethiops) is an Old World monkey with long white tufts of hair along the sides of its face.

- Scientific name: *Chlorocebus aethiops*
- Category: `mammals` (Zoogdieren)
- Habitats: `savanna` (Savanne)
- iNaturalist observations: 410
- Wikidata: [Q257470](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q257470)
- iNaturalist taxon: [43523](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/43523)

## Names

- en: Grivet Monkey
- de: Äthiopische Grünmeerkatze
- es: Cercopiteco verde
- fr: Grivet d'Éthiopie
- nl: Groene meerkat
- pt: Cercopithecus aethiops
- pl: Kotawiec zielonosiwy

## Countries with the most observations

ET (321), SD (17), ER (3), SS (3)

## Summary

The grivet (Chlorocebus aethiops) is an Old World monkey with long white tufts of hair along the sides of its face. Some authorities consider this and all of the members of the genus Chlorocebus to be a single species, Cercopithecus aethiops. As here defined, the grivet is restricted to Ethiopia, Sudan, Djibouti, and Eritrea. In the southern part of its range, it comes into contact with the closely related vervet monkey (C. pygerythrus) and Bale Mountains vervet (C. djamdjamensis). Hybridization between them is possible, and may present a threat to the vulnerable Bale Mountains vervet. Unlike that species, the grivet…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grivet

## Photo

![Groene meerkat](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/grivet-monkey/medium.jpg)

Photo: Erwin Sieben · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/204253325

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/grivet-monkey?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).