white-faced
adjective
1
: having the face white in whole or in part
—used especially of an animal otherwise dark in color
2
: having a wan pale face
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Trail cameras documented white-faced partridges four times in 2018 and once in 2021, the study said and photos show.
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Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
So the image of an infant howler monkey clinging to the back of a white-faced capuchin confused Zoë Goldsborough, a behavioral ecologist at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany.
—Elizabeth Landau, New York Times, 19 May 2025
That's what scientists think after watching a bunch of male white-faced capuchin monkeys walking around with baby howler monkeys clinging to their backs.
—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 19 May 2025
Costa Rican white-faced capuchins were more likely to survive El Niño if their feces exhibited higher levels of stress hormones during preceding droughts.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
Housed in five separate cages, the deceased monkeys included the De Brazza species as well as one common squirrel monkey, cotton-top tamarins and white-faced sakis.
—Reuters, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
This is a truly remote wilderness and a great place to spot rare mammals such as white-faced capuchins, margays, ocelots, and tapirs, an animal related to the rhinoceros species.
—Lily Bunker, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2024
Decades on, Fleur suddenly reemerges — all white-faced and disoriented but not a day older — to enter a newspaper office and ask to place an ad looking for Chen-Pang.
—Nathan Smith, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
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Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
So the image of an infant howler monkey clinging to the back of a white-faced capuchin confused Zoë Goldsborough, a behavioral ecologist at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany.
—Elizabeth Landau, New York Times, 19 May 2025
That's what scientists think after watching a bunch of male white-faced capuchin monkeys walking around with baby howler monkeys clinging to their backs.
—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 19 May 2025
Costa Rican white-faced capuchins were more likely to survive El Niño if their feces exhibited higher levels of stress hormones during preceding droughts.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
Housed in five separate cages, the deceased monkeys included the De Brazza species as well as one common squirrel monkey, cotton-top tamarins and white-faced sakis.
—Reuters, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
This is a truly remote wilderness and a great place to spot rare mammals such as white-faced capuchins, margays, ocelots, and tapirs, an animal related to the rhinoceros species.
—Lily Bunker, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2024
Decades on, Fleur suddenly reemerges — all white-faced and disoriented but not a day older — to enter a newspaper office and ask to place an ad looking for Chen-Pang.
—Nathan Smith, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
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“White-faced.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white-faced. Accessed 20 Nov. 2025.
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