166 CHILDH' 



\ved in exactly the igur and her baby, and 



ook a liveh his child, but did : e in 



prot it in any r on, when the young ape began to 



tak. d not scramble with it ties, 



in the usual fasl; ;eys living together, but they showed no 



is of shar breed quite often in captivity, 



birth usuaJJ .: place in the sleeping-box. They often 



a pa tinct which is not infrequent amongst 



mammals, 1: rare in the case of monkeys. In the first day 



or two i v kill and eat her young. In the carni- 



vores this perhaps is not so surprising. When the cubs are feeble, 

 or d i ^uses, i t would not be unnatural for a carnivorous 



mot] often with young and 



AJ^T But it also occurs 



con v ^TX^T/VT rrv AW^R thy. A 



T-^-U/ CI^A ontaina 



enoitieoq ov/t ni vdr>d lorf *&& ^SB$k*1%wLtb+g&tWR of the 



nobaoJ zdl ni jiipy ffiFlwDifeni/OY 9rfl istU evsb ws^ - 



tremely good mothers. 

 As i? monkeys, there is usually only one at a birth. 



It ci iying horizontally across the lower 



part , holding on by its hands and feet and with its 



long -und the back of the mother. The mother, 



jpport the baby by her own tail, which she 

 her legs over the body of the infant and 

 n body. Later on, when the young is more 

 <! on the back of the mother. For the first 

 upright with the baby lying across her 

 from time to time with a low crooning 

 -> interest in their young and have no 

 The plate (X) shows a black-he: 

 rn in the London Zoological Gard 

 The text-figure 

 much older, bt 



are born in a helpless con- 

 born lions can see, and rer 

 Barents, for a period ranging 

 ler creatures to even i 

 than a year. The large \ ures cover great distances ir* 



