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THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD 



the menageries is a separate species or 

 only the young of some one of the above- 

 mentioned is not very clear. But about 

 another variety there can be no doubt. It 

 lias been separated from the rest since the 

 days of the Pharaohs. It does not differin 

 habits from the other baboons, but inhabits 

 the rocky parts of the Nile Valley. It 

 appears in Egyptian mythology under the 

 name of Thoth, and is constantly seen in 

 the sculptures and hieroglyphs. 



Equally strong and far more repulsive 

 are the two baboons of West Africa — the 

 Drill and the Mandrill. As young 

 specimens of these beasts are the only ones 

 at all easily caught, and these nearly always 

 die when cutting their second teeth when in 

 captivity, large adult mandrills are seldom 

 seen in Europe. They grow to a great 

 size, and are probably the most hideous of all beasts. The frightful nose, high cheek-bones, and 

 pig-like eyes are the basis of the horrible heads of devils and goblins which Albert Diirer and 

 other German or Dutch mediaeval painters sometimes put on canvas. Add to the figure the mis- 

 placed bright colours — cobalt-blue on the cheeks, which are scarred, as if by a rake, with scarlet 

 furrows, and scarlet on the but- 



PIMo b, L. Midland, F.Z.S.] 



RHESUS MONKEYS 



[North VinihU) 



This photograph is particularly interesting. It tvas actually taken by another 

 monkey, which pressed the button of Mr. Medland's cimcra 



tocks — and it will be admitted that 

 nature has invested this massive, 

 powerful, and ferocious baboon 

 with a repulsiveness equaling in 

 completeness the extremes of 

 grace and beauty manifested in the 

 roe-deer or the bird of paradise. 



The natives of Guinea and 

 other parts of West Africa have 

 consistent accounts that the 

 mandrills have tried to carry off 

 females and children. The}- live 

 in troops like the chacmas, 

 plunder the fields, and, like all 

 baboons, spend much time on 

 the ground walking on all lours. 

 When doing this, they are quite 

 unlike any other creatures. They 

 walk -lowly, with the head bent 

 downward-, like a person walking 

 on hands and knees looking for 

 a pin. With the right hand 

 (usually) they turn over every 

 stick and stone, looking for insects, 

 scorpions, or snails, and these they 

 seize and eat. The writer has seen 



f k«, bj A. S. Kudland &• Sim 



ORANGE SNUB-NOSED MONKEY 



This should be contrasted ivith the Proboscis Monkey 



