APES, MONKEYS, AND LEMURS 



Photo hi L. Midland, F.Z. S., North Finchlt, 



GREY-CHEEKED MANGABEY 



One of the small African monkeys 



Photo by A S. Rudland &* Stni 



CHINESE MACAQUE 



This monkey lives in a climate as cold as ours 



another. The Cape 

 Dutch in the Old Colony 

 would rather let their 

 dogs bait a 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. 



If the baboons were 

 not generally liable to 

 become bad-tempered 

 when they grow old, they 

 could probably be 

 trained to be 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. Le 

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

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

 before the dogs could hear or smell it. He 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 rocky highlands of 

 Abyssinia ; another is the 

 ANUBIS BABOON of the West 

 Coast of Africa. The latter 

 is numerous round the 



ph.t, by rork & son. Nomng Hiii Portuguese settlement of 



GRIVET MONKEY Angola. Whether the so- 



This is the sma^mon^ommon ly taken about ^^ ^0* BABOON of 



Photo by A. S. Rudland & Stni 



BONNET MONKEY, AND ARA- 

 BIAN BABOON (ON THE RIGHT) 



