450 PREPAEATION OF FOOD. 



the Taj, near Perth, as they were also in the New Zealand 

 acclimatisation experiments between 1867 and 1872. 



The anthropoid apes both light or make up and tend 

 fires, and they cook food thereon or thereby just as man does 

 in short, exactly imitating all his operations. Thus on ship- 

 board they * light a fire and cook food thereon. . . . De 

 Grandpre tells us of a chimpanzee that heated the oven, 

 let no coals fall, and summoned the baker when the oven 

 was heated ' (Buchner). 



