Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various large forest-dwelling African monkeys of two genera, one (Cercocebus) consisting of chiefly terrestrial species, and the other (Lophocebus) consisting of chiefly arboreal species.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A monkey of the genus Cercocebus, of which there are several species, inhabiting Africa.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of several African monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, as the sooty mangabey (
Cercocebus fuliginosus ), which is sooty black.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any of several large,
arboreal monkeys of the familyCercopithecidae
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There are 11 species of monkey including anubis baboon Papio anubis, diana monkey Cercopithecus Diana (EN), green monkey Cercopithecus aethiops, mona monkey C. mona, lesser white-nosed monkey C. petaurista, white collared mangabey Cercocebus torquatus lunulatus, black and white colobus Colobus polykomos and chimpanzee Pan troglodytes (EN).
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Good luck not falling in love with the adorable 10-day-old cheetah cub Kiburi, an orphaned white-naped mangabey monkey or the baby Olive Ridley turtle setting off toward the sea.
Animal Photos Of The Week The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Good luck not falling in love with the adorable 10-day-old cheetah cub Kiburi, an orphaned white-naped mangabey monkey or the baby Olive Ridley turtle setting off toward the sea.
PHOTOS: This Week's Best In Animals -- Cheetah Cub, Baby Monkey, Tiny Turtle & More Travis Walter Donovan 2010
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Several new mammal species have also been discovered in recent years, including two possibly new species of dwarf galago (Galagoides spp.) on the Taita Hills and on Mt. Rungwe and potentially a new mangabey species endemic to the Udzungwa Mountains.
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Three species of primates are endemic to the Eastern Arc Mountains and Southern Rift, the Sanje mangabey (Cercocebus sanjei, EN), the Udzungwa red colobus (Procolobus gordonorum, VU) and the mountain dwarf galago (Galagoides orinus).
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The gray-cheeked mangabey can also be found in Central Africa and westward toward the Congo River and east to the shores of the Lualaba River in DRC.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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At least 832 plants, 43 butterflies, and 96 animals are only found here, this being the region where the highland mangabey was found recently (a new genus of monkey Rungwecebus).
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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And “Checking in with Conchita,” a video featuring a tiny white-naped “mangabey” (tiny monkey) at the London Zoo.
7 Simple Ideas Network TV Could (and Should) Grab from YouTube 2008
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Found only in small patches of gallery forest along the lower Tana River in Kenya, the Tana River red colobus (Procolobus rufomitratus, CR) is represented by only about 1,100-1,300 individuals, while the Tana River mangabey (Cercocebus galeritus, CR) has been reduced to only about 1,000-1,200 individuals.
Biological diversity in the coastal forests of Eastern Africa 2008
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In fact HIV-2, a rare AIDS virus confined to West Africa, is essentially a sooty-mangabey virus in a person.
Breeding Grounds 2008
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