单词 | rhesus macaque |
释义 | > as lemmasrhesus macaque 1. More fully rhesus macaque, rhesus monkey. A brown macaque with red skin on the face and rump, Macaca mulatta, common and widespread in Asia.The rhesus macaque has been widely used as a laboratory animal in biomedical research. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > family Cercopithecidae > genus Macaca (macaque) > Macaca mulatta (rhesus macaque) rhesus monkey1802 bandar1885 1802 Crit. Rev. 35 560 He [sc. Latreille] has..introduced the black ape spoken of by Vaillant, as well as the rhesus of Audibert. 1829 Jrnl. Facts Feb. 55 The Rhesus monkeys are originally from India; it is by them that a great part of the forests of the banks of the Ganges are inhabited. 1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 448/2 Rhesus Monkey, a species of Simiadæ. 1881 Mind 6 468 Among higher monkeys we find brilliant sexual hues in the rhesus, mandrill, and some other species. 1906 E. Ingersoll Life Animals: Mammals 30 The widespread little yellowish Bengal or rhesus monkey..abounds in northern India. 1941 Science 12 Dec. 568/1 Several extensive studies..testify to the uniformly negative results of feeding virus to rhesus. 1976 Amer. Jrnl. Vet. Res. 37 969/1 Rhesus macaques have been selected most for studying radiation sickness. 2007 G. Radick Simian Tongue i. iii. 99 The foreign monkeys were kept separate to ensure that no communication passed between them and the local rhesuses. < as lemmas |
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