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mangabey

[ mang-guh-bey ]

noun

plural mangabeys.
  1. any of several slender, long-tailed monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, inhabiting forests of Africa: some species are endangered.


mangabey

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noun

  1. any of several large agile arboreal Old World monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, of central Africa, having long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of mangabey1

First recorded in 1765–75; after Mangabey, a region in Madagascar
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of mangabey1

C18: after the name of a region in Madagascar
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As Joy recalled, "I actually really enjoyed observing and measuring the mangabeys' climbing behavior in the videos. They're adorable animals, and despite the fact that they were different individuals, I named them all Geronimo."

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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.

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After a kilometre or so, they passed a group of sooty mangabey monkeys lounging on logs.

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What would we give today to have averted the pandemic of HIV/AIDS, a lentivirus that was traced to human contact with infected chimpanzees and sooty mangabeys in West Africa?

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The marked flies kept turning up around the mangabeys, even 12 days later when the group had moved more than 1 kilometer away, the team reports in Molecular Ecology.

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