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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