mangabey
noun
man·ga·bey
ˈmaŋ-gə-(ˌ)bē 
plural mangabeys
: any of several genera (Cercocebus, Lophocebus, and Rungwecebus) of slender long-tailed African monkeys
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Researchers from the Helmholtz Institute in Germany have been observing this population of sooty mangabey monkeys in Ivory Coast’s Taï National Park since 2001.
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Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2025
The local community runs informative hikes around the wetlands, which contain eight primate species, including grey-cheeked mangabey and red colobus, endemic only to this region, along with 200 bird species, such as the great blue turaco.
—Kate Lewis, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
Spend your days learning about wild orchids, spotting silver monkeys and gray-cheeked mangabey, and marveling at some of the 345 bird species inside the park—30 of which are Albertine Rift endemics.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2023
Chimpanzees are more like humans than mangabeys and have a shallow ball-and-socket shoulder that allows for a greater range of movement.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 Sep. 2023
The angles at which the mangabeys positioned their shoulders and elbows were only about four degrees or less when ascending a tree versus downclimbing.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 Sep. 2023
One newborn mangabey, for example, the only baby in its group at the time, earned about 10 minutes of fur cleaning and combing for its mom.
—Jennifer Welsh, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2010
Only twice, though, has anyone found active virus in wild animals: a rope squirrel from the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1980s, and a sooty mangabey, found in Côte d’Ivoire about a decade ago.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 June 2022
The birth of this little adventurer brings the London Zoo’s white-naped mangabey troop to a total of eight.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 29 Aug. 2019
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Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2025
The local community runs informative hikes around the wetlands, which contain eight primate species, including grey-cheeked mangabey and red colobus, endemic only to this region, along with 200 bird species, such as the great blue turaco.
—Kate Lewis, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
Spend your days learning about wild orchids, spotting silver monkeys and gray-cheeked mangabey, and marveling at some of the 345 bird species inside the park—30 of which are Albertine Rift endemics.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2023
Chimpanzees are more like humans than mangabeys and have a shallow ball-and-socket shoulder that allows for a greater range of movement.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 Sep. 2023
The angles at which the mangabeys positioned their shoulders and elbows were only about four degrees or less when ascending a tree versus downclimbing.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 Sep. 2023
One newborn mangabey, for example, the only baby in its group at the time, earned about 10 minutes of fur cleaning and combing for its mom.
—Jennifer Welsh, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2010
Only twice, though, has anyone found active virus in wild animals: a rope squirrel from the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1980s, and a sooty mangabey, found in Côte d’Ivoire about a decade ago.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 June 2022
The birth of this little adventurer brings the London Zoo’s white-naped mangabey troop to a total of eight.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 29 Aug. 2019
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