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  • According to Fisher's survey, the most likely missing mammals to be found alive are the Montane monkey-faced bat in the Solomon Islands, Alcorn's pocket gopher, which was last seen in the high forests of Mexico, and the lesser stick-nest rat, a large, soft-furred desert animal from Australia.

    This seal was declared extinct in 1892. So what is it doing alive and well today? Ian Sample 2010

  • The East Melanesian Islands Hotspot also has affinities with Fiji (included as part of the Polynesia-Micronesia Hotspot), such as the Platymantis frogs, ancient “monkey-faced” fruit bats of the genus Pteralopex, and Nesoclopeus rails.

    Biological diversity in the East Melanesian Islands 2008

  • Particularly once they stop looking like scrunchy monkey-faced grandpas.

    An Open Letter to Everyone Who Told Me Two Kids Are Almost as Easy as One Doppelganger 2008

  • Good looks, charm, and an impressive demeanor have always played a part in human affairs, but here in America even our screen idols are monkey-faced women and epicene males.

    Archive 2008-01-20 papabear 2008

  • Rasheed had called the customer a monkey-faced Uzbek.

    A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007

  • I have also learned about monkey-faced boys, dog-faced girls, human-faced pigs, an 8-year-old who gave birth to twins, a woman who gave birth to a litter of 12 children, a 28-year-old grandmother, a man who was pregnant, and a tribe in South America that found a cure for cancer.

    Enquiring Minds and Space Aliens Revisited 2007

  • Since the only emotions that Hulk Hogan is capable of are anger and monkey-faced, staggering retribution, it's hard to know how Hulk Hogan will respond to the divorce, although there's smart money on him teaming up with Dog The Bounty Hunter to start some kind of Oversized Middle-Aged Grizzled Bleach-Blond Gorilla Emotional Support Network to see each other through in their time of mutual crisis.

    Hulk Hogan’s Wife Wants Half Of Everything In Divorce 2007

  • December 1st, 2005 at 12: 13 pm chuck says: there are still people left that believe even one word out of that monkey-faced son-of-a-bush ` s mouth …?

    Think Progress » Embedded TIME Reporter: Bush Lied In Speech Yesterday About Iraqi Security Forces 2005

  • And forever after Earth will be thought of as a place where monkey-faced savages walk around cramming untoasted wonderbread into their faces with no conception of what a civilized, sentient being considers hospitality.

    Also, Now That I’m Thinking About It… « Whatever 2006

  • It was a silly show, all capering women and monkey-faced men, and I did not stay long.

    The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

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