Word: mangabey
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...WHITE-NAPED MANGABEY HOME Ghana, Ivory Coast POPULATION 2,000 to 3,000 --So common in the 1950s that it was considered a crop pest, it is found in only a fraction of the forests it once roamed...
...SANJE MANGABEY HOME Tanzania POPULATION fewer than 1,500 --Discovered in 1981, this distinctive-looking species, with its orange underbelly and white eyelids, resides only in the fragmented forests of the Udzungwa Mountains...
...some time, scientists have known that a small African monkey called the sooty mangabey is the natural reservoir of a virus very similar to HIV-2, which causes a milder form of AIDS found largely in western Africa. But the source of HIV-1, the dominant cause of the AIDS pandemic, has remained elusive to virus hunters like Alabama's Dr. Beatrice Hahn. Long on the trail of links between HIV and kindred simian viruses, she jumped at the chance to examine old tissue samples (stored, as it turns out, in a freezer at the National Cancer Institute) from...
...misspellings that nobody ever noticed. One notice allowed that the black bears are "excellent swimers." Another, for the red fox, whose Latin name Vulpes fulva was spelled Vulpes Tulva, explained: "Range: Forrest regions in the temperate and sub-artic parts of both old and new world." The cherry-headed mangabey, read another sign, makes "speach-like sounds," while the eland runs in "large heards." The bear is famed for "it's strength and ferocity," and ostriches for "there keen sight and wary nature." Acting Zoo Director Vincent M. Mc-Namara promised that the signs would be replaced-when...
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