Dr. Seuss’s Lorax may have been based on the patas monkey—which is fun to read about in Seussian verse.

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The monkey’s full name? Erythrocebus patas. / It enjoys, at the moment, an unthreatened status. / It lives across Africa, in the savannas / And eats bugs and tubers (not so much bananas).

↩︎ Atlas Obscura

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