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of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together
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monkey any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)
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cercopithecidae,
family cercopithecidae Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque; mandrill; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkey
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guenon,
guenon monkey small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face
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mangabey large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids
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erythrocebus patas,
hussar monkey,
patas reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa
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baboon large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles
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macaque short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa
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langur slender long-tailed monkey of Asia
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colobus,
colobus monkey arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs
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