bonnet monkey
a long-tailed South Indian macaque, Macaca radiata, having a gray-brown coat and a caplike thatch of hair at the top of its head.
- Also called bonnet macaque .
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They were placed on a bonnet monkey which was in full typhus eruption.
More Science From an Easy Chair | Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) LankesterThere is thus no doubt whatever that typhus fever can be carried in this way from bonnet monkey to bonnet monkey.
More Science From an Easy Chair | Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) LankesterThe bonnet monkey is of the genus macacus, and is to be found in many parts of India.
Natural History in Anecdote | Various
British Dictionary definitions for bonnet monkey
an Indian macaque, Macaca radiata, with a bonnet-like tuft of hair
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