mangabey
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Origin of mangabey
First recorded in 1765–75; after Mangabey, a region in Madagascar
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So far, however, only six wild animals trapped in Africa have yielded the virus: three rope squirrels, a Gambian rat, a shrew, and a sooty mangabey monkey.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 7, 2022
After a kilometre or so, they passed a group of sooty mangabey monkeys lounging on logs.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 28, 2021
A type of monkey called a sooty mangabey resembles “an elderly chimney sweep of dapper tonsorial habits.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2012
Over years, they habituated chimps, mangabeys, and several other kinds of monkeys, and began documenting their lives.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 28, 2021
The seven groups of HIV-2, distinct as they were from one another, all resembled SIVsm, the virus endemic in sooty mangabeys.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 20, 2015
It is a blend of simian viruses from red-capped mangabeys and mustached guenons, small monkeys that chimps hunt and eat.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2011
Except in the rarest cases, chimps like the sooty mangabeys never show AIDS-like symptoms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Macaque, ma-kak′, n. a monkey of genus Macacus, between baboons and the African mangabeys.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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