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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
(Continued from vol. vii. p. 534.) 
Oct. 27, 1835.—The following ‘‘ Observations on the Habits, &c. of 
amale Chimpanzee, Troglodytes niger, Geoff., now living in the Mena- 
gerie of the Zoological Society of London, by W. J. Broderip, Esq., 
V.P.Z.S., F.R.S., &c.,” were read :— 
«The interesting animal whose habits in captivity I attempt to 
describe, was brought to Bristol in the autumn of this year by 
Capt. Wood, from the Gambia coast. The natives from whom 
he received it, stated that they had brought it about one hundred 
and twenty miles from the interior of the country, and that its 
age was about twelve months. The mother was with it, and, ac- 
cording to their report, stood four feet six inches in height. Her 
they shot,—and so became possessed of her young one; and those 
who have seen our animal will well understand what Dr. Abel 
means, when, in his painful description of the slaughter of an Asi- 
atic Orang (Pithecus Satyrus, Geoff.), he observes that the ges- 
tures of the wounded creature during his mortal sufferings, the hu- 
man-like expression of his countenance, and the piteous manner of 
his placing his hands over his wounds, distressed the feelings of those 
who aided in his death, and almost made them question the nature 
of the act they were committing. During the period of his being 
on ship-board, our Chimpanzee was very lively. He had a free range, 
frequently ran up the rigging, and showed great affection for those 
sailors who treated him kindly. 
«‘T saw him for the first time on the 14th instant, in the kitchen 
belonging to the Keeper’s apartments. Dressed in a little Guernsey 
shirt, or banyan jacket, he was sitting child-like im the lap of a 
good old woman, to whom he clung whenever she made a show of 
putting him down. His aspect was mild and pensive, but that of a 
little withered old man; and his large eyes, hairless and wrinkled 
visage, and man-like ears, surmounted by the black hair of his head, 
rendered the resemblance very striking, notwithstanding the de- 
pressed nose and the projecting mouth. He had already become 
very fond of his good old nurse, and she had evidently become at- 
tached to her nursling, though they had been acquainted only three 
or four days; and it was with difficulty that he permitted her to go 
away to do her work in another part of the building. In her lap he 
was perfectly at his ease; and it seemed to me that he considered 
her as occupying the place of his mother. He was constantly reach- 
ing up with his hand to the fold of her neck-kerehief, though when 
he did so she checked him, saying ‘“‘ No, Tommy, you must not pull 
the pin out.” When not otherwise occupied, he would sit quietly in 
her lap, pulling his toes about with his fingers, with the same pensive 
air as a human child exhibits when amusing itself in the same 
manner. I wished to examine his teeth; and when his nurse, in 
order to make him open his mouth, threw him back in her-arms and 
tickled him just as she would have acted towards a child, the carica- 
ture was complete. 
“1 offered him my ungloved hand. He took it mildly in his, with 
