How to Use squirrel monkey in a Sentence

squirrel monkey

noun
  • 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
  • His application was for a squirrel monkey, not a vervet monkey.
    — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 1 May 2024
  • The person then headed for the squirrel monkey exhibit and broke into the main house where monkeys sleep.
    — Bynadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Expect to see sloths and squirrel monkeys in the trees, iguanas sunning themselves on the rocks and colorful crabs in the sand.
    — Catherine Garcia, theweek, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Adolescent and adult squirrel monkeys were trained to press a lever to give themselves infusions of nicotine.
    — Laurie McGinley, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2018
  • 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 zoo now has 13 Bolivian squirrel monkeys.
    — Sarah Scanlan, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The forest itself also has an array of wildlife including squirrel monkeys, iguanas, sloths and more.
    — Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2024
  • 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 | [email protected], AL.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • The disease has experimentally been shown to infect squirrel monkeys and lab mice that carry some human genes.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • 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 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
  • When this occurred, the capuchins and squirrel monkeys anticipated correctly, while the marmosets missed out on their reward.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • This January, 12 squirrel monkeys were stolen from a zoo in Louisiana.
    — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Research has shown that CWD prions can be transmitted to some non-human primates, namely the squirrel monkey.
    — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Scientists in Arkansas were using squirrel monkeys to study the addictive effects of nicotine.
    — Jessica Parks, Philly.com, 26 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • Nonnative monkey species including rhesus macaques, vervet monkeys and squirrel monkeys can cause harm to humans with infections such as herpes B being transferrable through scratches and bites.
    — Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 18 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Perth Zoo has celebrated the birth of a Bolivian squirrel monkey, a tiny infant weighing less than a banana, and born to parents Vivo and Tikan.
    — Sarah Scanlan, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Costa Rica is also one of the most biodiverse countries in the world, which means visitors can see sloths, howler and squirrel monkeys, as well as whales that migrate just off the Pacific Coast.
    — Brittany Anas, The Denver Post, 17 June 2024
  • 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
  • When their calls were compared against everything from squirrel monkey chatter to melodies by the Beatles, their songs showed a balance of randomness and order that suggests style, not just repertoire, matters for communication.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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

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