OH. IV 



ALLIES AND ENEMIES 75 



tempting morsel, and throw away what they have in 

 their hands to get it. Thus the ground below gets 

 littered with the leaves, twigs, flowers, and half-eaten 

 fruit. Not only is damage done thus, but branches are 

 broken by the monkeys jumping and running about on 

 them. They also do a lot of harm by eating the eggs 

 of birds, and thus make away with a lot of useful insect- 

 destroyers. When they are in sufficiently large numbers 

 to do much damage they should be got rid of, either by 

 killing them or by driving them away. As the shooting 

 of monkeys is not a pleasant business it may be 

 preferable to get rid of them by poison. One of the 

 greatest enemies of the monkey is the leopard (or in 

 America probably some other member of that tribe, 

 such as the puma or jaguar), and in such places it may 

 possibly be to the forester's advantage not to molest 

 them. 



The above is, probably, a very incomplete statement 

 of useful and hurtful animals, but it must suffice to 

 direct the attention to one of the many problems which 

 face the forester when he undertakes the management 

 of forests. 



