Crossword clues for mangabey
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mangabey \Man"ga*bey\, n. [So called by Buffon from Mangaby, in Madagascar, where he erroneously supposed them be native.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several African monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, as the sooty mangabey ( Cercocebus fuliginosus), which is sooty black. [Also written mangaby.]
Wiktionary
n. Any of several large, arboreal monkeys of the family ''Cercopithecidae''
WordNet
n. large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids
Wikipedia
The term mangabey can refer to three different genera of Old World monkeys. Lophocebus and Cercocebus were once thought to be very closely related, so much so that all the species were in one genus. However, it is now understood that the species within genus Lophocebus are more closely related to the baboons in genus Papio, while the species within genus Cercocebus are more closely related to the Mandrill. The single species in Rungwecebus was discovered recently.
The three genera of mangabeys are:
- Lophocebus, the crested mangabeys
- Rungwecebus, the highland mangabey (aka kipunji)
- Cercocebus, the white-eyelid mangabeys
Usage examples of "mangabey".
Not likely that the elephants, the seals, the big cats or the bears would be up and doing, but the baboons, the macaques, the mangabeys, the gibbons, the deer, the tapirs, the llamas, the giraffes, the mongooses were early risers.