Asking, "Show me pictures of pygmy marmosets" will return pictures of the very peculiar dwarf monkey.
I couldn't put into words why his sense of yearning verged toward an impossible despair, why it looked like a campy costume when he dressed up as an old-time American rocker in the video for "Faith," why I found the lyrics to "Monkey" peculiar and troubling.
In her essay "Trouble in the Monkey House" (Sept . 12, Jennifer Schuessler concocts a peculiar mash-up.
The major wild animals include leopard (a variety peculiar to Zanzibar), civet cat, mongoose, two species of monkey, lemur, the African pig, forest duiker, pigmy antelope, about 20 species of bats, and 30 forms of snakes.
Next, Drago and Lundgren called the control rooms in Livingston, where it was just after 5 00 a.m., and Hanford, where it was just after 2 00 a.m., to see whether anybody had monkeyed with the detectors or noticed any peculiar behavior.
Two of the major objectives of this activity are to construct embedded groups and to show that the human species is an animal species a peculiar species, but an animal species, more closely related to the monkey than to the turtle.
A new monkey species may have been discovered in southeastern Tibet thanks to its peculiar penis, New Scientist reports.
The evolutionary history of the HLA-G gene is peculiar because, although great apes have an orthologue of HLA-G, presumably with a similar function [52], the Old World monkey equivalent has been inactivated [53].
Hiaasen has a peculiar genius for inventing grotesque creatures — like the monstrous voodoo woman known as the Dragon Queen and Driggs, a scrofulous monkey "with a septic disposition" — that spring from the darkest impulses of the id.
Yet there is something curious here, in the sense of peculiar: a meaning that, the exhibition tells us, prevented the Reys' British publisher from following the American example in naming the monkey.
