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APES AND MONKEYS 



Short-Tailed Monkeys. — It must not be supposed that 

 because the tail of a monkey is so short as to be scarcely 

 visible, the wearer is therefore a true ape. There are several 

 baboon-like animals with tails exceedingly short and insig- 



N. Y. Zoological Park. 



DEAD GELADA BABOON. 

 Note the lion-like aspect. 



nificant, but which are far removed from the true apes. 

 Some of these are called apes, but they are all much lower in 

 the scale. Of these, the most important are: 



The Black "Ape" of Celebes; 



The Barbary "Ape" of Gibraltar and North Africa; 



The Pig-tailed Macaque (pronounced Ma-cak') of the 

 East Indies, east of Ceylon, and 



The Japanese Red-faced Monkey. 



