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talapoin

NOUN
  1. smallest guenon monkey; of swampy central and west African forests

How To Use talapoin In A Sentence

  • This Pourquoi tale of the Mpongwe explains why talapoins live in trees.
  • Patas, talapoins, and mangabeys are also found in captivity with some frequency, and patas are also called hussar, military, or mustached monkeys by some exhibitors.
  • We cannot think without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of vermin. Les Miserables
  • The most characteristic part of the Siamese social system is the position of the priesthood, commonly called the talapoins.
  • Some species breed readily in captivity, as do rhesus; others, such as talapoins, are more difficult.
  • They were also amazed at the large numbers of monks, or talapoins in the curious parlance of the time; even today substantial numbers of males join the monkhood at least for a short period of time.
  • Many of the priests (talapoins) sat upon the rafts and wharves before their temples.
  • Predators of talapoin monkeys include leopards, golden cats, genets, raptors, large snakes, and Nile monitors.
  • To study the talapoins, he went to a village in southeast Cameroon and asked two Baka pygmies to take him into the rainforest.
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