| 单词 | patas monkey |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspatas monkey In full patas monkey. A chiefly ground-dwelling monkey with reddish hair, Erythrocebus patas (family Cercepithecidae), of savannah in sub-Saharan Africa. Also called red monkey. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > family Cercopithecidae > genus Erythrocebus (patas) patas1745 red monkey1763 1745 New Gen. Coll. Voy. II. 68 The Sieur Brue, on his anchoring at Tuabo [in 1698], found a new kind of monkeys, of so lively a red, that they seemed painted..The Negros called them Patas. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 233 The second [monkey] is the Patas..remarkable for its hair. 1790 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Gen. Hist. Quadrupeds 403 (heading) The Patas, or Red Monkey. 1893 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. I. 98 The West African patas, or red monkey, from Senegambia. 1954 G. Durrell Bafut Beagles i. 19 She got up suddenly and began to dance... I decided to call her Pavlova, and Pavlova the Patas monkey she became forthwith. 1983 R. M. Nowak & J. L. Paradiso Walker's Mammals of World I. 412/1 Strulisaker and Gartlan..found mean group size to be 21 (7–34) patas. 1991 P. Matthiessen Afr. Silences i. 10 We see a white-tailed mongoose, a patas monkey, vervets. < as lemmas |
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