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A STRANGE HATTLE. 



shoulders is plainly seen, the body decreasing rapidly from the lower limbs to the loins. 

 The thumb is the smallest of the fingers, and the foot closely resembles the human hand 

 I am quite sure that many of my readers have seen a chimpanzee, as I have had 

 them for years in my show. It is of one of these that I am now giving the history. 

 Thousands of visitors to Central Park, New York City, have been interested in the 

 two chimpanzees there. The male was christened " Mr. Crowley," and the female 

 "Miss Kitty." They are very cunning and amusing. "Crowley" was taken 

 down with pneumonia (to which the chimpanzee appears to be particularly subject) 

 during the past winter (1887-8), and for several days his life was despaired of. I 

 took a look at him while he lay motionless and suffering, and saw that there was 



THE CHIMPANZEE. 



little hope for the poor fellow ; but he had the best of nursing, and in this month of 

 April, 1888, is as frolicsome and bright as ever. I have always had strange feelings 

 when looking into the bright, human-like eyes of the chimpanzee, for there seems to 

 be something there which is visible in no other being except those belonging to our 

 own species. Some of their performances, too, display so much intelligence and 

 such a close resemblance to our own actions as to be startling. 



The chimpanzee prefers a hilly country with intervening valleys. The edible 

 fruits are abundant, and they gather the pine-apple, banana, and a species of plant- 

 ain, and the papaw, of which they are extremely fond. 



You should bear in mind that it takes the chimpanzee eight or ten years to at- 



