Editing Common patas monkey (section)

{{Short description|Species of Old World monkey}}
{{redirect|Patas|the Romanian village of Pătaş|Prigor}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Common patas monkey<ref name=msw3>{{MSW3 Groves | page = 160|id=12100520}}</ref>
| status = NT
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn">{{cite iucn |author=De Jong, Y.A. |author2=Rylands, A.B. |author3=Butynski, T.M. |year=2022 |amends=2020 |title=''Erythrocebus patas'' |page=e.T174391079A217739569 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T174391079A217739569.en}}</ref>
| image = Patas Monkey.jpg
| image_caption = At the [[San Francisco Zoo]], California, U.S.
| genus = Erythrocebus
| species = patas
| authority = ([[Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber|Schreber]], 1775)
| range_map = Patas Monkey area.png
| range_map_caption = Geographic range (includes ''E. poliophaeus'' and ''E. baumstarki'')
}}

The '''common patas monkey''' ('''''Erythrocebus patas'''''), also known as the '''hussar monkey''',<ref name="iucn"/> is a ground-dwelling [[monkey]] distributed over [[Sahel|semi-arid areas]] of [[West Africa]], and into [[East Africa]].