APES, MONJCEYS, AND LEMURS 



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 Out- oj tht tmati > ■ beys. 



CHINESE MACAQUE 



This moi ■■f.iite as cold a 



anoth cr. The Cape 



I )utch in the Old ( iolony 



would rather let their 



dogs l>.iit .1 lion than 



a troop of baboons. 



The rescue of the infant 



chacma which Brehm 



saw himself is a remarka- 

 ble, and indeed the most 



incontestable, instance 



of the exhibition of 



courage and self-sacri- 

 fice by a male animal, 

 li the baboi ms were 



not generally liable to 



become bad-tempered 



w hen they grow old, they 



could probably be 

 trained to he among the most useful of animal helpers and servers; but they are so 

 formidable, and so uncertain in temper, that they are almost too dangerous for attempts at 

 semi-domestication. When experiments have been made, they have had remarkable results, l.e 

 Vaillant, one of the early explorers in South Africa, had a chacma baboon which was a better 

 watch than any of hi^ dogs. It gave warning of any creature approaching the camp at night long 

 before the dogs could hear or smell it. lie took it out with him when he was shooting.and used 

 to let it collect edible roots for him. The latest example of a trained baboon only died a 

 few years ago. It belonged to a railway signalman at Uitenhage station, about 200 miles 

 up-country from Port Elizabeth, in Cape Colony. The man had the misfortune to undergo 

 an operation in which both his feet were amputated, after being crushed by the wheels of a train. 

 Being an ingenious fellow, he taught his baboon, which was a full-grown one, to pull him along the 

 line on a trolley to the " distant" signal. There the baboon stopped at the word of command, and 

 the man would work the lever himself. But in time he taught the baboon to do it, while he sat 

 on the trolley, ready to help if any mistake were made. 



The chacmas have for 



relations a number of other 



baboons in the rocky parts 



of the African Continent, 



most of which have almost 



the same habits, and are 



not very different in ap- 

 pearance. Among them 



is the Gelada Baboon, a 



species very common in 



the rock)- highlands of 



Abyssinia ; another is the 



Ani his Baboon of the West 



( !i iast of Africa. The latter 



is numerous round the 

 Mm. b, r.r* &> Son. N.nmg Hill Portuguese settlement of 



GRIVET MONKEY Angola. Whether the so- 



This rs the small monkey commonly taif ahou: 11 j /-» t> c 



whh arei-organ ' Called COMMON BABOON Ol 



Phito by A. S. Rudland &> Soni 



BONNET MONKEY, ANP ARA- 

 BIAN BABOON (ON THt XIGHT) 



