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Why are baboons, geladas, and mandrills in the macaque subfamily the only monkey species whose standardized Chinese names do not end with "monkey"?

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为何科名尾字为「猴」的生物里,只有猕猴亚科的狒狒属、狮尾狒属、山魈属,其规范中文种名尾字非「猴」?

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