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  • noun Plural form of mangabey.

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Examples

  • Scientists found two strains of simian foamy virus, commonly found in nonhuman primates, from three species — two mangabeys and a chimpanzee — in bushmeat.

    Bushmeat Presents Latest Food Scare Joel Stonington 2010

  • Scientists found two strains of simian foamy virus, commonly found in nonhuman primates, from three species — two mangabeys and a chimpanzee — in bushmeat.

    Bushmeat Presents Latest Food Scare Joel Stonington 2010

  • Scientists found two strains of simian foamy virus, commonly found in nonhuman primates, from three species — two mangabeys and a chimpanzee — in bushmeat.

    Bushmeat Presents Latest Food Scare Joel Stonington 2010

  • Groves’ report is proposing to raise the conservation status of Uganda mangabeys to the IUCN’s list of endangered species.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • Incidentally, drill-mangabeys are sometimes called eyelid monkeys because of their white upper eyelids, and baboon-mangabeys are sometimes called black mangabeys, for the obvious reason.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Good observations were finally made of the Kipunji in December 2003, and it now turned out that a monkey population reported in 2001 from the Ndundulu Forest Reserve, misidentified as Sanje mangabeys Cercocebus sanjei (itself only discovered in 1979), were actually reports of the Kipunji.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • But as Peeters and her colleagues conclude in a report on their findings, "hunters and food handlers may be at risk of infection with many more SIVs than just those from chimpanzees and sooty mangabeys."

    Breeding Grounds 2008

  • If primates interest you, check out my posts on kipunjis and mangabeys.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Macaques develop AIDS when they contract SIV from sooty mangabeys.

    Breeding Grounds 2008

  • Drill-mangabeys, drills and mandrills search manually through rotten wood and leaf litter, consuming hard nuts and seeds, and audibly cracking them with their large teeth.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

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