HYENAS, MONKEYS, AND PIGS 



I would have given it to our beautiful Bronx " Zoo," but, 

 alas ! after a few days it began to ail and refused to eat. I 

 at once let it loose, thinking it would survive if left to 

 return to the troop again. But, unfortunately, we found 

 it dead the next morning, only a few hundred yards away 

 from our camp. 



The baboons are ugly, doglike monkeys, which run 

 around in large troops. It is not an uncommon thing to 

 see a hundred or more of them together at one time. 

 Although most baboons are able to climb trees with the 

 greatest ease, yet they very often are seen on the ground, 

 and sometimes, even when pursued, they will go off at a 

 great pace over the grass rather than to make for the 

 nearest trees. This may only be a proof of intelligence on 

 their part, for they have probably learned that the largest 

 tree gives no protection from the white man's firearms. 

 That they are well able to distinguish between the white 

 hunter and natives has more than once attracted my atten- 

 tion. 



It is very curious to observe a troop of these monkeys. 

 They are able to change the expression of their faces in 

 a most wonderful way, and who knows if this is not a 

 " sign language " well understood by all baboons ? When 

 disturbed, and the troop goes off at great speed, the little 

 ones ride on their mothers' backs, while the animals eject 

 a series of short, barklike sounds. The color of the East 

 African baboons is olive-green to yellowish brown. The 

 callosities on the buttocks are very large and of a pinkish 

 red color. As the " arms " and legs of this monkey are 

 almost equal in length, this makes him really more fit to 

 run on the ground than to live in trees. 



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