How to Use squirrel monkey in a Sentence

squirrel monkey

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  • Be sure to keep an eye out for the two squirrel monkeys that live on the property as well as the swan that lives in the slough.
    — Doreen Christensen, Sun-Sentinel.com, 11 May 2018
  • The squirrel monkeys were tested with mealworms and were fooled 93 percent of the time.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
  • In the new study, published in Nature, the researchers used a type of squirrel monkey in which the males lack a visual pigment called L-opsin.
    — Patrick Morgan, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2011
  • For example, a macaw’s 20-gram brain holds as many neurons as a squirrel monkey’s 30-gram brain.
    — Tess Joosse, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The honor of first primates to survive a return trip to space goes to a squirrel monkey named Miss Baker, and a rhesus macaque named Able.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Miss Baker was a squirrel monkey, one of a pair of monkeys that were the first animals to be launched into space and be recovered alive.
    — Kelly Kazek | Kkazek@al.com, AL.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • In 1959, the Army launched Able, a rhesus monkey, and Baker, a squirrel monkey, aboard a missile for a suborbital flight that both survived.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2020
  • Adolescent and adult squirrel monkeys were trained to press a lever to give themselves infusions of nicotine.
    — Laurie McGinley, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Visitors can walk through trails and get up close to one gorilla, one orangutan, five capuchins and dozens of Java macaques and squirrel monkeys.
    — Alan Gomez, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Over the last year, the zoo has also added some new residents, introducing a 2-year-old Queensland koala and a baby squirrel monkey.
    — Brett Shweky, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The walkways near these exhibits mirror the animal habitats, with kids able to run and jump on roped bridges, platforms and a mock tree that resembles the design of the squirrel monkey exhibit.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The havoc-wreaking gang consisted of three spider monkeys and two squirrel monkeys.
    — Vincent Crampton, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
  • The suspect, Joseph Raymond Randall, was tied to the squirrel monkey thefts after police reviewed video footage from the zoo and received several phone calls from members of the public, the police chief said.
    — Melissa Alonso, CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
  • According to Reid Park Zoo, the squirrel monkey troop has not been vaccinated because one of the troop members is pregnant and set to deliver this summer.
    — Jodicee Arianna, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2022
  • This January, 12 squirrel monkeys were stolen from a zoo in Louisiana.
    — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • From a bat, buzzard and barn owl, to a scorpion, seahorse and squirrel monkey, Inside In is a collection of more than 50 arthropods, mollusks, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
    — Megan Gambino, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Authorities followed a tip that led them to Price's apartment, where the animals, including a squirrel monkey, a skink, three box turtles and two red-foot tortoises, were discovered.
    — Lilly Price, USA TODAY, 6 June 2018
  • Scientists in Arkansas were using squirrel monkeys to study the addictive effects of nicotine.
    — Jessica Parks, Philly.com, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Among wildlife likely to be encountered during the seven days on the boat are pink and gray river dolphins; parrots, tiger herons, laughing falcons and other interesting birds; squirrel monkeys and capuchin monkeys; sloths; and poison dart frogs.
    — Phil Marty, chicagotribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • While less dexterous than their capuchin counterparts, squirrel monkeys have limited thumb rotation, but can oppose their thumbs.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey, shown just before her flight to space in 1958 on a Jupiter rocket — an intermediate-range ballistic missile designed to carry nuclear warheads, not monkeys.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2020
  • But researchers have been blindsided before, when efforts by White Coat Waste ended studies on squirrel monkeys, cats, and dogs at several federal facilities.
    — David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The thief had first targeted the facilities of smaller primates before gaining access to the squirrel monkey exhibit and successfully stealing 12 of the 38 monkeys in that enclosure, according to zoo officials.
    — Bynadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 8 Feb. 2023

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