6 Apes. 



It may here be mentioned that the bald-headed 

 chimpanzee, unlike its cousin the common one, is 

 fond of meat. Du Chaillu tells us that one he kept 

 for some months " was very fond of boiled meat, 

 particularly boiled fish, and was constantly picking 

 bones he collected about the town." " Sally " will 

 kill and eat a pigeon or a rat, while her " younger 

 sister" is satisfied with a sparrow or other small 

 bird, and, like Du Chaillu's pet, they both 

 appreciate cooked meat. Neither of them has, 

 however, so far as we are aware, acquired the 

 pernicious taste for strong drink possessed by that 

 animal. 



" Sally's " cage is separated from that in which 

 the three young apes are confined by a wooden 

 partition, through the cracks in which she is fond 

 of peeping at them. The' action is wonderfully 

 human ; as indeed, is the jealousy with which she 

 regards her keeper when he pays any attention to 

 his young charges, and we have little doubt that it 

 would fare badly with them were the partition 

 removed. Though not so interesting as the adult 

 and well-educated ape, the young ones are well 

 worth a visit. They are in good health and full 

 of spirits, and play with one another in a most 

 amusing manner. 



The chimpanzees have a certain quaint stolidity 

 even in their most lively moments, and though 

 evidently fond of fun and laughter and that they 

 do laugh, cannot, we imagine, be disputed 

 apparently recognise the gravity of life ; while the 



