| 单词 | howler monkey |
| 释义 | > as lemmashowler monkey b. In full, howler monkey. A South American monkey of the genus Alouatta. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > family Cebidae > genus Alouatta (howler monkey) guariba1753 howling monkey1769 warine1774 alouatte1779 howler monkey1800 araguato1852 congo ape1859 red howler1865 Congo monkey1874 ursine howler1884 Stentor1891 1800 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. I. i. 72 The Allouates, or Howlers, inhabit the moist forests, in the neighbourhood of waters and marshes. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 37/1 The species are, as the name [Mycetes] implies, Howlers, and the horrible yells sent forth by these animals..are described..as surpassingly distressing and unearthly. 1865 Reader No. 121. 457/1 Numerous spider-monkeys, the red howlers. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator i. 5 The chief monkey-furs imported are those obtained from the howlers. 1906 E. Ingersoll Life Animals: Mammals 43 The howlers, arguatos, or alluates are the largest and most powerful of South American apes and the dullest, and are peculiar in having no thumb or only a rudimentary one, and in having the hyoid bones in the throat (of the males only) widely enlarged and cavernous, so as to form a curious hollow organ, by which their voice is so increased as to be audible two miles. 1932 S. Zuckerman Social Life Monkeys & Apes xi. 192 The well-known howler monkeys (genus Alouatta) of the forests of the northern half of South America are usually found in small parties. 1958 J. Carew Black Midas ii. 26 A big white devil does sit on a treetop roarin' like a howler baboon. 1964 Listener 5 Nov. 710/2 Fighting is rare in wild gibbons and apparently absent in wild howler monkeys. 1967 S. A. Altmann Social Communication among Primates xvii, 329 Other groups of howlers avoid areas from which such calls come. < as lemmas |
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