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The Living Animals of the World 



putting their heads almost upside-down in 

 efforts at acute criticism at low and musical 

 passages. Every change of note was marked 

 by some alteration of expression in the faces 

 of the excited little monkeys, and a series of 

 discordant notes roused them to a passion 

 of rage." At the same time a big baboon, 

 chained up near, evidently disliked it. He 

 walked off in the opposite direction to the 

 farthest limits of his chain. 



THE NEW WORLD MONKEYS. 



Mention of the Capuchins takes us to 

 the whole group of the New World Monkeys. 

 Nearly all of these live in the tropical forests 

 of Brazil, Guiana, Venezuela, and Mexico. 

 They are all different from the Old World 

 monkeys, and many are far more beautiful. 

 The most attractive of the hardier kinds 

 are the Capuchins ; but there are many 

 kinds of rare and delicate little monkeys 

 more beautiful than any squirrel, which 

 would make the most delightful pets in the 

 world, if they were not so delicate. To 

 {London. try to describe the Old World monkeys in 



separate groups from end to end is rather a 

 hopeless task. But the American monkeys 

 are more manageable by the puzzled amateur. 

 Most of them have a broad and marked 



division between the nostrils, which are not mere slits close together, but like the nostrils 

 of men. They also have human-looking rounded heads. Their noses are of the " cogitative " 



order, instead of being 



snouts or snubs with narrow 



openings in them; and the 



whole face is in many ways 



human and intelligent. Th'e 



HOWLER MONKEYS, which 



utter the most hideous 



sounds ever heard in the 



forests, and the SPIDER 



MONKEYS are the largest. 



The latter have the most 



wonderfully developed 



limbs and tails for catching 



and climbing of any living 



animals. As highly special- 



ised creatures are always 



interesting, visitors to any 



zoological garden will find 



j Worth while to Watch a 



. 

 Spider monkey climbing, 



Photo by A. S. Rudland & Sons] 



HEAD OF MALE MANDRILL. 



This is one of the most hideous of living animals. The natives ef 

 West Africa hold it in greater dislike even than the large carnivora, from 

 the mischief which it does to their crops. 



Photo i y L. Mcdiand, F.Z.S., North Fin 

 BROWN CAPUCHIN. 



The most intelligent of the common monkeys 

 of the New World. It uses many sounds to 

 express emotions, and perhaps desires. 



Photo by L. Medland, F.Z.S., Korth Flnchley. 

 DBILL. 



Only less ugly than the Mandrill. Its habits are 

 the same. 



