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Word: cercopithecus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mokele Mbembe could hardly create more of a stir than we do in this previously undisturbed land. Gorillas stare and scream at us, and sometimes charge, but almost never run away. Colobus and cercopithecus monkeys crane their necks to eye us from high tree branches. Gloriously fat wild pigs, elsewhere the favorite game of hunters, look up from their rooting and peer at us calmly through the low brush for several minutes before moving off toward new forage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Eden: a remote African rain forest | 7/13/1992 | See Source »

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