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  • Lowry Park Zoo (FL) imported a troop of Patas monkeys from Puerto Rico and placed them on an island surrounded by a 50-foot wide, 8-foot deep moat.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • The last of the escaped Patas monkeys from a Florida park have been captured.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • The Patas monkeys that escaped from SafariWild near Lakeland, FL, are still on the loose.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • Other Sahelian mammal species include an isolated and presumably highly inbred population of around 70 olive baboons Papio anubis, in the Tamgak massif, and an estimated 500 Patas monkeys Erythrocebus patas in the central massifs and plateaux.

    Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger 2008

  • Because of their impressive speed, the Patas monkey is my September selection in the Monkey of the Month club.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Field Notes 2008

  • Because of their impressive speed, the Patas monkey is my September selection in the Monkey of the Month club.

    A monkey faster than Usain Bolt: The Patas Monkey Field Notes 2008

  • But this was not all for Mona's edification; she had another admirer, and this was a Patas, or red monkey.

    Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories Ellen Velvin

  • Somewhat later, Uncle Patas 'wife brought from her town a sister of hers, and when she arrived, between the wife and the son she was forced upon the old man, who concluded by taking up with his sister-in-law.

    The Quest P��o Baroja 1914

  • What did make him indignant was the stinginess of Uncle Patas and his people.

    The Quest P��o Baroja 1914

  • Uncle Patas, the proprietor, a heavy, burly Galician, instructed the youth in his duties.

    The Quest P��o Baroja 1914

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