266 ANTHROPOID APES. 



My personal observations enable me to add but 

 little to this excellent and exhaustive account. It 

 is well known that this ape throve in the Berlin 

 Aquarium. His skin, especially on the extremities, 

 was at first covered with dry, cracked patches, which 

 the late veterinary surgeon Gerlach believed to be 

 due to mange ; but tliese gradually disappeared, and 

 as they scaled off the skin became smooth and of a 

 dark black colour, and there was a fresh growth of 

 hair. The creature generally slept in the bed of his 

 keeper Viereck, covered himself up in an orderly 

 manner, and ate at the man's table of plain but 

 nourishing food, cooked by the keeper's wife. He 

 sometimes ate fruit, and bananas were occasionally 

 provided for him. When taking his meals, drink- 

 ing, etc., I saw that he always behaved with good 

 manners. He often moved freely about in an office- 

 room of the Aquarium, and he was as obedient to 

 the Director as to his keeper. He was generally 

 good-tempered, fond of play, but rather mischievous, 

 and he would snatch roughly, and occasionally try 

 the sharpness of his teeth. Sometimes he tried to 

 seize from visitors things which attracted his 

 curiosity, such as the trimmings of ladies' bonnets, 

 lace falls, and the like. But on the whole he be- 

 haved with propriety, playfulness, and good temper, 

 and there was much which resembled man in his 

 look and bearing. 



Early in 1876, before leaving Africa, this ape 

 suffered from malaria, and he subsequently suffered 

 from other complaints, from which he recovered. 

 He died in November, 1877, of a galloping con- 



