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  Natural History Magazine | Editor’s Pick From the Past   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The current English name for the monkey, Macacus nemestrinus, is ’coconut-monkey.’ The work of picking the nuts is performed in a way essentially the same as that described by Shelford and quoted by Gudger.
I have seen a Brok act as a very efficient fruit-picker, although the use of the cord was dispensed with altogether, the monkey being guided by the tones and inflections of his master’s voice.” (Shelford, Robert W. C., A Naturalist in Borneo, London, 1916, p.
Of Macacus nemestrinus he writes that it is trained by the natives and taught to gather coconuts.
www.naturalhistorymag.com /editors_pick/1923_05-06_pick.html   (2609 words)

  
 Observations on Primate Aggression
In addition there were 3 sub-adult females, 48 infants born in India during July and August, 1938,90 infants born in the Colony between May 19 and December 31, 1939 and 20-odd infants born since January 1, 1940.
Besides these Rhesus monkeys there was a male, a female and an infant of the pig-tail type (Macaca nemestrinus) constituting a small family.
The animals organized themselves into 6 heterosexual groups ranging in size from 3 in the case of the pig-tail group to 147 for the largest Rhesus group.
www.csudh.edu /oliver/smt310-handouts/aggresof.htm   (1653 words)

  
 The Descent of Man - SUPPLEMENTAL NOTE
A young Cynopithecus niger never acted, excepting on one occasion, in this way towards his master, but frequently towards strangers, and continues to do so up to the present time.
From these facts Von Fischer concludes that the monkeys which behaved in this manner before a looking-glass (viz., the mandrill, drill, Cynopithecus niger, Macacus rhesus and nemestrinus) acted as if their reflection were a new acquaintance.
The mandrill and drill, which have their hinder ends especially ornamented, display it even whilst quite young, more frequently and more ostentatiously than do the other kinds.
cyberspacei.com /jesusi/authors/darwin/descent/descent_022.htm   (1345 words)

  
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 Form, Function, and Intracortical Projections of Neurons in the Striate Cortex of the Monkey Macacus nemestrinus -- ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Form, Function, and Intracortical Projections of Neurons in the Striate Cortex of the Monkey Macacus nemestrinus -- Anderson et al.
Form, Function, and Intracortical Projections of Neurons in the Striate Cortex of the Monkey Macacus nemestrinus
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 The Probert Encyclopaedia - Animals And Plants (R-S)
It is incapable of flight, but has strong legs and can run very fast.
Rhesus Monkey is a name for two species of monkeys, the brush, or pig-tailed monkey (Macacus nemestrinus) which inhabits the Malay Peninsular, and the islands of the Indian Archipelago, and is often domesticated; and the Macacus Rhesus, a species of monkey held sacred in India, where they swarm in large numbers about the temples.
Rhinobatidae is the shark-ray or beaked ray family of fishes.
www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/B8.HTM   (7763 words)

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