Apes and Monkeys 



sleeps on a tree, but during the clay it traverses the 

 thickets and river-side woods in search of food. This 

 consists largely of grasses, and also of tree-fruits, leaves, 

 grass-seeds, all sorts of insects, besides young birds and 

 any eggs it may happen to come across. I have never 

 been able to confirm the statement that baboons hunt 

 full-grown dwarf antelopes, but I do not doubt that there 



are times when they kill quite young or newly born 

 animals of this kind and devour them. 



It is very interesting to note the way in which the biggest 

 baboons in a herd keep watch against the onslaughts of 

 leopards, their greatest enemy, and other beasts of prey. 

 Three or four experienced leaders take their stand on 

 a fallen tree-trunk some few feet above the around, and 



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act as sentries. The herd feels perfectly safe under their 

 guardianship. The enormous old males, whose teeth are 

 longer and stronger than those of the leopard, as well as 

 the smaller females with their young of various sizes, all 



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