VOLUMES I-III 



LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD 



SUMMARY OF CONTENTS 



BOOK I. -MAMMALS 



INTRODUCTION (TO Voi.s. I-III) i-viii 



CHAPTER I 



APES, MONKEYS, AND LEMURS 



MAN-LIKE APES: THE CHIMPANZEE Its resemblance 

 to man; first accounts of it; description; " Sally," the 

 educated specimen. THE GORILLA Earliest descrip- 

 tions; as known to science. THE ORANG-UTAN Three 

 varieties; information from Brooke and Wallace; a tree- 

 living animal; in captivity. THE GIBBONS Gentle and 

 affectionate; various species. MONKEYS Immense va- 

 riety; great family of true monkeys; grotesque Proboscis 

 Monkey; Dog-shaped Monkeys; Sacred Monkeys of India; 

 the clever Entellus; long-tailed Himalayan Langur, " a 

 king of the Jungle"; the White-bearded Wanderoo (so 

 wise-looking that he is called Nestor) and Great Wanderoo; 

 Snub-nosed Monkeys. GUEREZAS AND GUENONS Strik- 

 ing hair and colours; very friendly; the Diana, an "organ 

 monkey"; story of one on board ship; the Grivet, Green, 

 Mona, and Mangabey species. THE MACAQUES Many 

 kinds described; the Magot, or Barbary Ape, the last 

 European species, living on Gibraltar. BABOONS Most 

 interesting of wild apes; descriptions and stories by 

 scientists and travellers. SPEECH OF MONKEYS Ex- 

 periments of Garner and others. AMERICAN MONKEYS 

 Human-looking heads; Capuchins, "nicest of all monkeys"; 

 many other species described. LEMURS Homes and 

 characteristics. TRUE LEMURS Varieties of the group. 

 THE GALAGOS Confined to tropical Africa. SLOW 

 LEMURS AND TARSIERS Found in India, Ceylon, and the 

 Malay countries. THE AYE-AYE Most remarkable of 

 weird lemuroids; its abnormal fingers 1-32 



General description and list of animals included. THE 

 LION New lion countries opened up; stories of the lion's 

 power and destructiveness confirmed. THE AFRICAN 

 LION Full account by F. C. Selous; all Africa once 

 roamed by lions; their destruction by firearms; nature's 

 limit to their increase; description in detail; the lion's 

 fear of man; lions rarely attack in daytime; man-eaters. 

 THE TIGER Found omy in Asia. Indian and northern 

 tigers; Royal Bengal Tiger, "a ferocious savage"; Sir 

 Samuel Baker's description; a terror to peasants; its hunt- 

 ing habits; narrative of General Douglas Hamilton; tigers 

 now scarce in India. LEOPARDS Worse than tigers; 

 various in size and colour; Chinese leopard; leopards are 

 tree-living and nocturnal; story by Baker; the Snow 

 Leopard. AMERICAN CATS The Jaguar, savage and 

 formidable; the Puma, its ferocity in the north; Hudson 

 and Everard im Thurn on its friendliness in South America; 

 the Ocelot, most beautiful of medium-sized cats; a tree 



cat, living on birds and monkeys; its coloration; Wilson's 

 tame ocelot. OTHER WILD CATS Clouded Leopard, 

 Mottled Cat, Tibetan Tiger-cat, Fishing-cat, Geoffrey's 

 Cat, Leopard-cat of Java and Japan, Marbled Cat, Rusty- 

 spotted Cat, Bay Cat, Pampas-cat, Pallas' Cat, Golden 

 Cat, Serval, Eyra Cat, Black-footed Wild Cat, Kaffir Cat, 

 Jungle Cat, Egyptian Fettered Cat; all described, their 

 habitats, characters, etc., clearly indicated. THE COMMON 

 WILD CAT Tale of Barnborough church; Charles St. 

 John's experience with a Scotch wild cat; range of the 

 wild cat; worst of savages; recent studies; ancestry of 

 domestic cats. LYNXES Characters and home; Caracals, 

 Common Lynx, Canadian Lynx, Northern Lynx, Red 

 Lynx, Mediterranean or Spanish Lynx, Siberian Lynx. 

 THE CHEETA, or HUNTING-LEOPARD Widely dispersed; 

 most dog-like of cats; its non-retractile claws; Lockwood 

 Kipling's charming account; Baker tells how a Cheeta 

 captured a bu^k. THE DOMESTIC CAT Familiar account 

 by Louis 'Wain; cats that retrieved; cunning of the semi- 

 wild cat; critical observation of cats; the Tortoiseshell, 

 national cat of Spain; the Black Cat; cat of St. Clement 

 Danes Church; Wain's wonderful Peter; White Cats, Blue 

 Cats, the Tabby, Sand-coloured Cat, Manx Cat, Siamese 

 Royal Cat, Long-haired or Persian Cats; interesting de- 

 scriptions and narratives concerning these 33-73 



CHAPTER III 



THE FOSSA, CIVETS, AND ICHNEUMONS 



THE FOSSA A Madagascan genus. CIVETS AND 

 GENETS Deviation from the cat family; African and 

 Indian Civets; Malabar, Javan, and Burmese Civets; the 

 Rasse; Palm-civets; Bennett's Civet; Genets; Common 

 Genet; Linsangs; Hemigales; the Binturong. THE 

 MONGOOSE AND ICHNEUMON FAMILY Killers of snakes, 

 etc.; Indian Mongoose, a " universal favourite"; killing a 

 cobra; Egyptian Mongoose, or Ichneumon; Kaffir Mon- 

 goose; Cusimanses; Meerkats, or Suricates; resume"; dis- 

 cussion of the comparative intelligence of animals thus 

 far described 74-80 



CHAPTER IV 



THE HYENAS AND AARD-WOLF 



THE HY.ENA His business; Dean Buckland's demon- 

 stration; Brown Hyana; Spotted Hya?na; its attacks on 

 animals and men; described by Sclater, Drummond, and 

 Baker; Striped HyaBna. THE AARD-WOLF A family by 

 itself 80-82 



CHAPTER V 



THE DOG FAMILY 



Animals included. THE WOLF Great enemy of man; 

 where found; anecdotes of its exploits; Rudyard Kip- 

 ling's " heroic " picture; General Hamilton's instance; 



