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The Living Animals of the World 



Photo by A. S. Rudland & Sons. 



BLACK-EARED MARMOSET. 



These are among the prettiest of small tropical monkeys from the New World. 1 hey 

 are insect-feeders, and very delicate. 



are these New World species. No 



person clever at interpreting the ways 



of animals 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 LAGOTHKIX, 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- 

 varieties 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 concentration mark them 

 all, except the large anthro-- 

 poid apes. Some of these 

 have without doubt powers 

 of reflection and concentra- 

 tion 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- 



Photo by L. Midland, F.Z.S.'] 



HUMBOLDT'S WOOLLY MONKEY. 



[Korth Finchley. 



This is the most popular monkey in England. He looks for all the world like a Negro, and 

 has a most beautiful, soft, woolly coat. He is very tame, and loves nothing better than being 

 petted. 



