Vervet

Now, your first thought is probably, What the hell is 'vervet'? ❋ Unknown (2006)

The vervet monkey demonstrates this kind of behaviour, rearing up to look about it for danger. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Or so he thought until he picked up the shaving mirror on the nightstand to inspect his mummified head and noticed the vervet tied behind him to the bedpost, trying to catch a glimpse of its own bemused reflection. ❋ Jay Kirk (2010)

At breakfast, vervet monkeys splashed down onto low branches, convinced that today they were going to nail the buffet. ❋ Forbes Life Staff (2010)

In the last year alone, I've been knocked to the curb by a cyclist, aggressively attacked by vervet monkeys, and struck in the face with a stick by an emasculated chimpanzee. ❋ Millie Kerr (2011)

Zinzi December's animal is a sloth, boyfriend Benoît harbours a mongoose; other denizens of Zoo City the run down area of Johannesburg which has become a ghetto for the "animalled" have attracted scorpions, sunbirds, vervet monkeys. ❋ Unknown (2011)

These simulators, unlike vervet monkeys, can be placed in outdoor areas to recreate conditions in which such an attack might actually occur. ❋ Kathy Guillermo (2011)

In addition, Goodall was sent to study the vervet monkey, which lives on an island in Lake Victoria. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He would see what happens to vervet monkeys every single month at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland: in a crude simulation of a nerve agent attack, the monkeys are given a massive overdose of a drug called physostigmine. ❋ Kathy Guillermo (2011)

This surprise sighting – I learn later the gazelle is a Red Duiker – is followed moments later by a family of vervet monkeys chatting high in the treetops, feasting on fruit and playing monkey games in the branches overhead. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The vervet monkeys have come to say good morning and inquire as to whether or not you needed the sugar that was brought in with your coffee. ❋ Lauren Scott (2010)

Indeed, one lives among all the other creatures that lurk day and night, which means walking out of your suite and running into impala, duiker, warthogs, vervet monkeys and the occasional leopard don't worry the staff will give you a heads-up if one is on the prowl. ❋ Maria Russo (2010)

A family of vervet monkeys trooped along the buckled roofline and clambered into the branches of an overhanging fig tree. ❋ Malla Nunn (2010)