1. Lemurs are adorable monkey-like animals that live only in Madagascar, with a few species on the nearby Comoros islands.

2. I happened to have a monkey-like trait that makes me want to feel, smell, taste things which arouse my curiosity, then to take them apart.

3. I was simply making my fingers go in monkey-like imitation.

4. A monkey-like animal seen as an ancestor of monkeys, apes and humans was not as brainy(1) as expected, according to scientists who analyzed its nicely preserved 29-million-year-old skull.

5. The virus infected our monkey-like ancestors 40 million years ago, and its genes have been passed down ever since.

6. A lemur is a monkey-like animal with a long tail and large eyes.

7. I did not know that I was spelling a word or even that words existed; I was simply making my fingers go in a monkey-like imitation.