With regal manes, hairless scarlet chest patches, and intimidating canines jutting from their mouths like scythes, it would be easy to think gelada monkeys were the rulers of their mountain domains.

With their bright red, hairless chests and grass-grazing lifestyle, gelada monkeys are quite unusual. They are the only primate, other than humans, to primarily live on land instead of in trees, and a ...

A group of geladas monkeys (Theropithecus gelada), pictured above, huddle to keep warm on a cold day in the Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart, Germany. Endemic to Ethiopia’s cold Afroalpine and sub-Afroalpine ...

Amongst the high mountain meadows and grasslands of the Ethiopian plateau stands one primate, the gelada–the "bleeding heart" monkey named for its brilliant red chest. Geladas are the last of their ...

Left: a gelada male attacks two females, who respond with screams and bared-teeth facial expressions. Right: one of the study subjects, feeding, is about to receive the audio stimulus; the ...

RFM during a play session between an adult (left) and a juvenile gelada (right). Credit: P.F. Ferrari Don't be fooled by those impressive teeth. These two gelada monkeys (Theropithecus gelada) are ...

The ability to mimic the facial expressions of others is thought to be linked to empathy. It's known that humans and orangutans "ape" each other in this way, but gelada monkeys appear to do it too, a ...

Left: a gelada male attacks two females, who respond with screams and bared-teeth facial expressions. Right: one of the study subjects, feeding, is about to receive the audio stimulus; the ...

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An international research team has put together the first gelada reference genome, assembled from a single wild adult female gelada from the Simien Mountains, Ethiopia. They combined it with a ...