What is "rhesuses"

Usage examples of "rhesuses".

I knew from hard experience that these particular rhesuses were quick, agile, strong, uncannily smart, and dangerous.

Although I'd thought intelligence was related to brain size and to the number of folds in the surface of the brain, these rhesuses didn't have enlarged craniums, except for a few telltale characteristics, they resembled ordinary members of their species.

Although the rhesuses are not as smart as human beings, the advantage we have isn't great enough to make me feel comfortable about playing a high-stakes game of poker with any three of them.

To fully appreciate the long-term threat of these redesigned rhesuses, consider that rats are dreadful pests even though they are a tiny fraction as intelligent as we are.

Perhaps this wasn't a game that I was witnessing, not play but ritual, a ceremony with a symbolic significance that was clear to these rhesuses but was an impenetrable mystery to me.

Either its posture conveyed a deep melancholyor I was overcome by sentimentality, attributing more human qualities to these rhesuses than made sense.

Ordinary rhesuses, which live primarily by day, do not exhibit eye shine in darkness.

The increased intelligence conferred on these rhesuses is as much a curse as a blessing to them.

Furthermore, they had been impressed into the search for the troop of rhesuses and human subjects that escaped the lab more than two years ago, and on that night of violence, most had been bitten, clawed, or otherwise infected, they were in danger of becoming, so they agreed to be participants in the conspiracy, with the hope of being first in line for treatment if a cure for the retrovirus was discovered.

We piled into the Hummer, and Doogie locked all the doors with a master switch on the console, just as the rhesuses swarmed over the vehicle.

Either its posture conveyed a deep melancholy—or I was overcome by sentimentality, attributing more human qualities to these rhesuses than made sense.

Well, I'll admit that rhesuses can be cute sometimes, with their pale little faces and that ruff of fur.

Unlike ordinary rhesuses, these were bold rather than shy, brooding rather than lighthearted.

I was sure that I had identified the most fundamental difference between ordinary rhesuses and this extraordinary troop that secretly roamed the night, but I was reluctant to accept my own conclusion, inevitable though it seemed: These monkeys were smarter than ordinary monkeys.