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fell ill and soon after died. The sorrow of i\ie bereaved foster- 

 father was excessive, not like that of an animal, but similar 

 to the grief of a deeply-feeling man. At first he took the 

 stiffening body in his arms, caressed it in all possible manners, 

 and attended upon it as before, with the tenderest care. He 

 then placed it in a sitting posture before him, looked at it at- 

 tentively, and uttered a plaintive cry when he saw it collapse. 

 Again and again he tried to recall it to life ; and every time 

 he uttered a loud cry when he saw that his favourite remained 

 dead. The whole day he took no food, the dead little monkey 

 occupied him constantly. At length Brehm took away the 

 body by force and threw it over the high wall of the courtyard 

 into the garden. But in a few minutes the monkey had bitten 

 the strong rope through to which he was fastened, sprang over 

 the wall and returned with the body in his arms. Brehm now 

 again bound him fast, took the dead body away and threw it 

 into a deep well. The monkey immediately freed himself once 

 more from his bonds, remained for hours searching for the body, 

 and then left the house for ever. In the evening of the same 

 day he was seen on his way to the woods. ' To call such and 

 similar actions instinct,' says Brehm, ' would be ridiculous. 

 They are proofs of intellect and deep feeling. There are apes 

 who surpass many obtuse members of the human race in sense, 

 and their intelligence grows by experience, as I have frequently 

 observed in tame monkeys. Without hesitation we may rank 

 the simise next to man as the most highly developed animals, 

 not only in their physical organisation, but also in intelligence.' 



The tribes of the Mangabeys, Macaques, Magots, and Cyno- 

 pitheci form the links between the cercopitheci and the 

 baboons. Their shape is less slender than that of the former, 

 their frontal bone is more developed, particularly above the 

 eyebrows, and their face is longer. They are all of them pro- 

 vided with cheek-pouches. Several of the macaques have a 

 very short tail, and the magots, or Barbary apes, and the 

 cynopithecus of the Philippine Islands, have none, thus re- 

 sembling the large anthropomorphous apes, but widely differing 

 from them in other respects. 



The Magot is the only European species, and seems ex- 

 clusively confined in our part of the world to the rock of 

 Gibraltar, though some authors affirm that it is found in other 



