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Saki

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Saki (1870-1916)

Burmese-born British writer. He produced ingeniously witty and bizarre short stories, often with surprise endings. He also wrote two novels, The Unbearable Bassington (1912) and When William Came (1913).

He served with the Military Police in Burma, and was foreign correspondent of the Morning Post 1902-08. He was killed in action on the western front in World War I.

saki

New World tree-dwelling monkey with a long, non-prehensile tail. There are four species: the white-faced saki, monk saki, black bearded saki, and white-nosed bearded saki. They are found only in the Amazon valley and Guiana.

Classification

Sakis are in the genera Pithecia and Chiropotes (bearded sakis) in the family Cebidae, order Primates.
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