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particular things that were served at the table, and, when given other 

 than what it desired, became irritated, threw down what was offered 

 it, stamped its feet and uttered a peculiar cry, and acted, Du Chaillu 

 says, just as a spoiled child would have done. A friend of the au- 

 thor, who had a little monkey, and was studying its instincts, said 

 of it : " It is a badly brought-up child. It has all such a child's faults, 

 and is intelligent enough to know when it is disobeying, and to hide 

 itself when it intends to disobey." Dr. Abel's orang-outang showed 

 its anger, when refused what it wanted, by rolling on the ground like 

 a mad child and screaming, and would then go off and hide. The 

 apes which Adanson chased in the forests of Senegal knit their eye- 

 brows, gritted their teeth, and screamed ; and the monkeys in the 

 Jardin des Plantes and the Jardin d'Acclimatation, when irritated by 

 the refusal of anything that has been tantalizingly shown them, throw 

 themselves upon the gratings, make their ugliest faces, show their 

 teeth, and scream and mutter. 



" Greedy as a monkey " is a vulgar expression. Houzeau says that 

 those persons who assert that monkeys will not have to do again with 

 intoxicating drinks after having once been made their victims were 

 more desirous of teaching a moral lesson than of telling the exact 

 truth. Most tamed monkeys are ready enough to drink wine and 

 brandy, and will help themselves to them. They like to get tipsy, 

 and will indulge themselves whenever they can, in spite of chastise- 

 ments. Their intoxication is characterized by the same symptoms as 

 man's — weak knees, thick tongue, and unsteady movements. This 

 identity of the effects of intoxication extends to other animals : 

 asses and horses have been seen drunk ; and dogs, which generally 

 refuse wine, can be made to accept alcoholic drinks if they are suffi- 

 ciently diluted and sweetened ; while, as we have seen, monkeys of 

 different species often exhibit antipathies to one another, those of the 

 same species will assist one another, provided they are not sexual 

 rivals. This trait of mutual helpfulness appears to exist in all ani- 

 mals that have organs of prehension — as among the climbing birds 

 and those insects which have mandibles. The instinct is quite well 

 developed among monkeys, and those of the same family or troop 

 exhibit traits of mutual assistance that might be very properly com- 

 pared with those shown by men in their relations with one another. 

 The monkeys in Sumatra, according to Cesare Moreno, are verv 

 troublesome in the gardens, and even in houses, when they can find 

 entrance into them ; and no kind of inclosure seems adequate to pro- 

 tect fruits and vegetables from their depredations. Forming a line in 

 order to pass their spoil from hand to hand, they scale the walls, 

 enter at the doors or windows, and leisurely pillage all that they can 

 find. Then they retire to the woods, to dress themselves up in the 

 gayly colored cloths which they may have stolen, while they have a 

 particular faney for whatever will give a metallic reflection. They 



