nerves

Example Sentences

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The monkeys are not native to the US, but a colony of vervets lives in the wild in Florida.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026

But they tolerate the vervets, if they stay put.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2022

All of the other Khan Younis animals except the monkeys—four vervets and a macaque, which are bound for the Israeli Primate Sanctuary Foundation—went to the New Hope Centre sanctuary in Jordan.

From National Geographic • Sep. 26, 2016

All told, vervets have words meaning ‘leopard’, ‘eagle’, ‘snake’, ‘baboon’, ‘other predatory mammal’, ‘unfamiliar human’, ‘dominant monkey’, ‘subordinate monkey’, ‘watch other monkey’, and ‘rival troop’.

From Time • Jul. 22, 2015

We do this because, like vervets, we are a lot more attuned to personal cues than contextual cues.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell