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THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD 



fhott by A, S. Rudland <V Soni 



BLACK-EARED MARMOSET 



These are among the prettiest of small tropical monkeys in America : they art 

 insect-feeder $, and "very delicate 



these New World species. No person 

 clever at interpreting the ways of ani- 

 mals would fail to consider them far 

 more clever and sympathetic than the 

 melancholy anthropoid apes, while 

 for appearance they have no equals. 

 Probably the most attractive monkey 

 in Europe is a South American one 

 now in the London Zoological Gardens. 

 It was first mentioned to Europeans by 

 Baron von Humboldt, who saw it in the 

 cabin of an Indian on the Orinoco. 

 These forest Indians of South America 

 are gentle creatures themselves. Among 

 other amiable qualities, they have a 

 passion for keeping pets. One who 

 worked for a friend of the writer, with 

 others of his tribe, was asked what he 

 would take in payment, which was given in kind. The others chose cloth, axes, etc. This 

 Indian said that he did not care for any of these things. He said he wanted a " poosa." No 

 one knew what he meant. He signed that he wished to go to the house and would show them. 

 Arrived there, he pointed to the cat ! " Pussy," to the Arawak Indian, was a " poosa," and that 

 was what he wanted as a month's wages. Humboldt's Indian had something better than a 

 " poosa." It was a monkey, as black as coal, with a round head, long thickly furred tail, and 

 bright vivacious eyes. The explorer called it the LAGOTHRIX, which means Hare-skin Monkey. 

 The fur is not the least like a hare's, but much resembles that of an opossum. The more suitable 

 name is the WOOLLY MONKEY. The one kept at the Gardens is a most friendly and vivacious 

 creature, ready to embrace, play and make friends with any well-dressed person. It dislikes 

 people in working-clothes which are dirty or soiled a not uncommon aversion of clever animals. 



In spite of all the vari- 

 eties of temperament in the 

 monkey tribe, from the genial 

 little Capuchins to the morose 

 old baboon, they nearly all 

 have one thing in common 

 that is, the monkey brain. 

 The same curious restlessness, 

 levity, and want of concentra- 

 tion mark them all, except the 

 large anthropoid apes. Some 

 of these have without doubt 

 powers of reflection and con- 

 centration which the other 

 monkeys do not possess. But 

 in all the rest, though the 

 capacity for understanding 

 exists, the wish to please, as 

 a dog does, and the desire 

 to remember and to retain 

 what it has learnt, seem 



Photo h] L. Midland, F.Z. S.] 



[North Finchley 



UMBOLDT'S WOOLLY MONKEY 



This is the most popular monkey in captivity. He looks for all the -world like a Ne*ro and has 

 >ut,ful t soft, -woolly coat. He is very tame, and love* nothing better than being petted 



