Illustration of vervet
- green monkey or vervet
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However, the vervet population faces significant challenges.
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Samantha Dee, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2025
His application was for a squirrel monkey, not a vervet monkey.
—Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 1 May 2024
In the late nineteen-seventies, two primatologists, Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth, were studying vervet monkeys in Kenya.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
Young vervets sometimes use these calls faultily, perhaps sounding a leopard alarm for a warthog.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
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Samantha Dee, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2025
His application was for a squirrel monkey, not a vervet monkey.
—Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 1 May 2024
In the late nineteen-seventies, two primatologists, Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth, were studying vervet monkeys in Kenya.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
Young vervets sometimes use these calls faultily, perhaps sounding a leopard alarm for a warthog.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
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“Vervet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vervet. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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