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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The idea was to spend the day looking for caimans, white-faced capuchins, and the many species of birds that live in the area, but high winds created waves that proved insurmountable, even for Le Bellot’s fleet of Zodiacs.
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Qin Xie, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025
Trail cameras documented white-faced partridges four times in 2018 and once in 2021, the study said and photos show.
—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
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Qin Xie, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025
Trail cameras documented white-faced partridges four times in 2018 and once in 2021, the study said and photos show.
—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
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“White-faced.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white-faced. Accessed 11 Dec. 2025.
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