| two incidents of venomous snakebite on juvenile blue and sykes monkeys (cercopithecus mitis stuhlmanni and c. m. albogularis). | although rarely observed, predation is thought to be an important factor in the evolution of primate life histories and behavior. here i describe two incidents of snake predation on cercopithecus mitis guenons from kenya. the first case involved a juvenile blue monkey (cercopithecus mitis stuhlmanni) in the kakamega forest, which died following a bite by a gaboon viper (bitis gabonica gabonica). the snake's attempts to ingest its prey were unsuccessful. in the second incident, a juvenile sykes m ... | 2008 | 18704624 |