Meanings
plural hare-lipped monkeys
- datedcrab-eating macaque
They are the common hare-lipped monkey (Macacus cynomolgus), which is found all over the western islands of the Archipelago, and may have been introduced by natives, who often carry it about captive.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 294
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