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- noun Plural form of
gelada .
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Examples
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Groups of up to 600 geladas, as the Baboon like animals are known officially, are not unheard of.
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A short hike from our lodge (claimed to be the highest hotel in African at 3260m or 10,700ft!) our guide found us a group of geladas.
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Sitting in the midst of a group of maybe a hundred geladas who appeared only mildly nervous of me and just watching and hearing them feed and fight and play with the dazzling mountain vistas as a backdrop was one of the most memorable experiences of the trip.
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Pescadores corajosos subverteram a ideia tradicional de um dia calmo e pacífico de pescaria quando decidiram ir para dentro de águas geladas do Alaska infestadas de tubarões num kayak e com canas de pesca.
Archive 2007-10-01 Red 2007
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Pescadores corajosos subverteram a ideia tradicional de um dia calmo e pacífico de pescaria quando decidiram ir para dentro de águas geladas do Alaska infestadas de tubarões num kayak e com canas de pesca.
Pesca ao tubarão em kayak/ Extreme Kayak Shark Fishing Red 2007
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If correct, this diphyletic take on mangabey affinities would mean that geladas, baboons, drills and mandrills do not form a clade of ‘dog-faced cercopithecids’ as conventionally thought.
Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Given that we now have dog-faced monkeys variously scattered about a phylogenetic tree that also includes shorter-faced baboon-mangabeys, drill-mangabeys and the kipunji, you should now be wondering about the polarity and evolution of the long muzzle and large body size seen in mandrills, baboons and geladas.
Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006
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However, molecular studies have consistently found mangabeys to be diphyletic, with the six terrestrial mangabey species forming a clade with drills and mandrills (and with macaques too in some studies), and the two arboreal mangabeys forming a clade with baboons and geladas.
Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006
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I was hoping to cover in this post the rise and fall of the geladas, giant fossil baboons, swamp monkeys, talapoins, and the diversity of macaques.
Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Within Papionina, Rungwecebus and Papio form a clade, and the Rungwecebus + Papio clade forms a trichotomy with baboon-mangabeys and geladas.
Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006
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