Editing Vervet monkey (section)

=== Relationship with humans ===

[[Image:Chlorocebus pygerythrus00.jpg|thumb|upright|An infant vervet monkey, South Africa]]
The monkeys are used for biomedical research.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article4276460.ece | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080713013738/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article4276460.ece | url-status=dead | archive-date=13 July 2008 | work=The Times | location=London | title=Germ warfare fear over African monkeys taken to Iran | first=D. | last=Foggo | date=6 July 2008 | access-date=27 March 2010}}</ref> Many people living in close proximity to vervet colonies see them as pests, as they steal their food. Heavy fines in some areas discourage the killing of vervet monkeys.<ref>{{cite news|author=Mngoma, N. |url=http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/r10-000-reward-for-monkey-killer-1.1753789#.VXt2t_mqrUc |title=R10 000 reward for monkey killer |publisher=IOL |date=19 September 2014 |access-date=24 May 2017}}</ref>

Its status according to the [[IUCN]] is "least concern".<ref name=iucn/>

This species was known in ancient [[Egypt]], including the [[Red Sea Mountains]] and the [[Nile Valley]].<ref>{{cite journal |author=Moeyersons, J.|author2= Vermeersch, P. M.|author3= Beeckman, H. |author4= Van Peer, P. |title=Holocene environmental changes in the Gebel Umm Hammad, Eastern Desert, Egypt: Dry cave deposits and their palaeoenvironmental significance during the last 115 ka, Sodmein Cave, Red Sea Mountains, Egypt |journal=Geomorphology |volume=26 |issue=4 |year=1999 |pages=297–312 |doi=10.1016/S0169-555X(98)00067-1|doi-access= }}</ref> From [[fresco]] artworks found in [[Akrotiri (prehistoric city)|Akrotiri]] on the Mediterranean island of [[Santorini]] there is evidence that the vervet monkey was known to the inhabitants of this settlement around 2000 [[Before Christ|BC]]; this fact is most noted for evidence of early contact between Egypt and Akrotiri.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://themodernantiquarian.com/site/10846/akrotiri.html#fieldnotes |author=Michael Hogan, C. |date=2007-12-13 |title=Akrotiri |publisher=Modern Antiquarian |access-date=2008-07-13}}</ref> Excavations dated to the end of the 1st century AD from [[Berenice Troglodytica|Berenike]], a Roman-Egyptian port-town on the Red Sea coast, demonstrate that vervet monkeys must have been kept as pets at that time.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Osypińska |first=Marta|date= December 2016|title=Pet cats at the Early Roman Red Sea port of Berenike, Egypt |journal= Antiquity|volume=90|issue= 354|doi=10.15184/aqy.2016.181 |doi-access=free}}</ref>