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- noun Plural form of
mangabey .
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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
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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
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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
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Groves report is proposing to raise the conservation status of Uganda mangabeys to the IUCNs list of endangered species.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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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
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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
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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
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If primates interest you, check out my posts on kipunjis and mangabeys.
Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Macaques develop AIDS when they contract SIV from sooty mangabeys.
Breeding Grounds 2008
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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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