Lately, there hasn't been enough attention paid to the misnaming of the douc langur monkey, the southeast Asian Old World monkey recently featured -- some have suggested overexposed -- on the pages of the Beagle.The douc is more closely related to the proboscis and snub-nosed monkeys than to any of the langurs, not to be snotty about it.
Perhaps monkeys don't care for the taxonomic irregularities since they don't read at a seventh grade level. Yet. But monkey-powered treadmill robots with teleported motivation are coming on-line, and readers are reminded to be alert.
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