Scientific name -- Cercopithecus aethiops
Size -- 6-17 lbs.
Diet -- fruit, flowers, leaves, seeds

Few monkeys lived near the Nile, but some were imported from deserts in North Africa. Vervet monkeys live throughout Africa, but prefer drier environments such as savannahs to actual rain forests, but rarely stray far from a source of water or from trees. Vervets are diurnal and gregarious. Rank order within a family is maintained by threat displays, such as eyelid gestures. 

Wealthy Egyptians kept vervets or tail-less Barbary macaques as pets. Some were even mummified and buried. Age of Mythology monkeys have an unprecedented affinity for building rafts and starting fires.