How to Use vervet in a Sentence

vervet

noun
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  • Tao, a vervet monkey; and a trio of yellow baboons named Fox, Pretzel and Mwayi.
    — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Now that the mystery of how the vervet monkeys ended up in Dania Beach is solved, the future of the playful primates is still up in the air.
    — Scott Luxor, sun-sentinel.com, 16 July 2021
  • To learn more about vervet monkeys, visit the zoo in person or on social media.
    — Saryn Chorney, PEOPLE.com, 19 June 2018
  • The alarm call vervet monkeys use to warn of martial eagles is nearly identical to the call green monkeys use to warn of drones.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • Six-year-old John Ssebunya was found living with green vervet monkeys in the Ugandan jungle in 1991.
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2017
  • For this reason, vervets have evolved a pattern of distinct screams that not only act as a warning but also reveal the type of predator in their midst.
    — Frank T. McAndrew, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The zoo introduced the baby vervet to the public via a Facebook post written by an animal care specialist named Hillary.
    — Saryn Chorney, PEOPLE.com, 19 June 2018
  • African vervet monkeys, for example, have three main predators: leopards, snakes and eagles.
    — Frank T. McAndrew, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Young vervet monkeys are sometimes sold on the exotic animal market while adults are kept for breeding, Williams said.
    — Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Erkelens spent about five days on the island and recalls afternoons lounging on the beach, drinking beers at the bar, and exploring the island, where vervet monkeys ambled down from the hills.
    — Amanda Schaffer, WIRED, 1 May 2018
  • It’s estimated that thousands of free-roaming vervet monkeys call St. Kitts home.
    — Daily Intelligencer, 23 Apr. 2018
  • One vervet from Dania was trapped by poachers last summer and one female disappeared in November.
    — Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Be warned, vervet monkeys and baboons abound and unlike Simba’s mandrill friend, Rafiki (which means friend in Swahili), these monkeys are more likely to steal your food than offer sage advice.
    — National Geographic, 11 July 2019
  • Zoo officials say the new exhibit is a way to highlight some of the more obscure species like fossas, lemurs, vervet monkeys, and klipspringers, and highlight them at a time when wildlife is disappearing from the continent.
    — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 June 2017
  • In both academia and the popular press, vervet monkeys became celebrated mascots for the language-like abilities of animals.
    — Ferris Jabr, New York Times, 12 May 2017
  • Our village is surrounded by mango trees, so baboons and vervet monkeys are regular visitors during the mango season.
    — Martin Edstrom, National Geographic, 16 June 2017
  • While the vervet research won acclaim, Slobodchikoff’s remained frustratingly sidelined.
    — Ferris Jabr, New York Times, 12 May 2017
  • Other primatologists took up Barrett and Henzi’s call and described biological markets in chimpanzees, lemurs, spider monkeys, and vervet monkeys.
    — Ben Crair, Bloomberg.com, 1 Aug. 2017

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