mangabey

mangabey (MANG-guh-bey) - n., any of about a dozen species over two genera of slender forest-dwelling monkeys of Africa, one genus (Cercocebus) being chiefly terrestrial species, the other (Lophocebus) being chiefly arboreal species.


Closely related to macaques, mandrills, and baboons.


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Named after Mangabey, a place in Madagascar from which Georges Buffon received specimens of these, which he erroneously believed were native to that island instead of the mainland. Oooo-kaythen.

---L.