254 NEIGHBORS WITH CLAWS AND HOOFS. 



REMUS CROWLEY AND HIS HABITS. 



1. During the winter most of the animals of the Cen- 

 tral Park menagerie are carefully housed ; only a few 

 which are accustomed to cold winters remain where they 

 are seen in the summer. The chimpanzee, Remus Crow- 

 ley, Esq., occupies a cage in the office of Superintendent 

 Conklin. A temperature between sixty and seventy de- 

 grees is maintained at all times, and the animal is as care- 

 fully protected from all draughts as an invalid person. 

 In his native climate of Liberia cold draughts are un- 

 known, and when exposed to them Mr. Crowley pays the 

 penalty with a sore throat or a cold in the head. At night 

 a heavy blanket is placed in his cage, and when the 

 weather is extremely cold he wraps himself up in it, but 



at other times uses it as a mat- 

 tress. * Jake,' ' a robust park 

 official, attends to him regu- 

 larly, and the strongest attach- 

 ment exists between them. 



2. In personal appearance, 

 Mr. Crowley has nothing del- 

 icate about him. He came to 

 the Central Park last June, and 

 has now entered on his third 



The Chimpanzee. . . ,, , 



year, growing rapidly and 



gaining over a pound a month ; if he lives several years 

 longer, he will probably attain a height of five feet. At 

 present he is a trifle over two feet high, and weighs 

 twenty-six pounds. His hair is parted in the middle, 

 and banged on his forehead ; his body is covered heavily 

 with hair and has no tail. When he stands upright, Mr. 

 Crowley presents fully as civilized an appearance as the 

 man in a heavy fur coat who crowds himself in a narrow 



