mangabey

Questions

What does mangabey mean?

Any of several large, arboreal Old World monkeys in the genera Cercocebus and Lophocebus.

Where does mangabey come from?

So called by Buffon from Mangaby, in Madagascar, where he erroneously supposed them to be native.

How to pronounce mangabey

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