sapajous

Of all the prehensile-tailed monkeys which haunt the forests of the Upper Amazon — graceful sahuis, horned sapajous, gray-coated monos, sagouins which seem to wear a mask on their grimacing faces — the guariba is without doubt the most eccentric.

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

Except in the hush of noonday, the notes of singing-birds are drowned amidst the howling of monkeys, the whining of sapajous, the roar of the jaguar, and the dismal hooting of thousands of wild animals that riot in these awful solitudes.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

The puma, the jaguar, the tapir, the capybara, the llama, or glama, and vicuna, and the whole tribe of sapajous, were to them entirely new animals, of which they had not the smallest idea ....

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904

The jaguar was in full view of them, and although not one out of the whole lot, except the sapajous, ever had an ancestor who had seen a jaguar, one and all recognized a hostile genus, and a hereditary enemy.

The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations William Temple Hornaday 1895

These were the little soft cries of the sapajous, the moans of the alouate apes, the howlings of the jaguar and couguar, the peccary and the sloth, and the cries of (many) birds.

The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In John Lubbock 1873

Upper Amazon -- graceful sahuis, horned sapajous, gray-coated monos, sagouins which seem to wear a mask on their grimacing faces -- the guariba is without doubt the most eccentric.

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Jules Verne 1866

The small sapajous of America, which imitate in whistling the tones of the passeres, have the bone of the tongue thin and simple, but the apes of large size, as the alouates and marimondes, * have the tongue placed on a large bony drum.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

These were the little soft cries of the sapajous, the moans of the alouate apes, the howlings of the jaguar and couguar, the peccary, and the sloth, and the cries of the curassao, the parraka, and other gallinaceous birds.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

Among the most curious of the monkey tribe are the ateles, or spider-monkeys, -- called also Cebidae, and, by the natives sapajous, one of the species of the coaita, or quata.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Among the strange cries were those of the sapajous, the moans of the alouati monkeys, the howlings of jaguars and pumas, the shrieks and grunts of peccaries, the calls of the curassow, the paraka, and other fowls.

The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela William Henry Giles Kingston 1847