ANIMAL ANTIPATHIES 171 



recently noticed that a large dog, which found its way 

 to a point opposite the outdoor cages of the lion-house 

 at the Zoo, crept underneath a seat as soon as the puma 

 caught sight of it, and exhibited signs of the utmost 

 nervousness and fear. Most of the keepers at the Zoo 

 are agreed that those animals which exhibit marked 

 likes or dislikes for visitors have the strongest possible 

 antipathy to black men. Children they also dislike, 

 but for the obvious reason that the children tease them. 

 It has long been noticed that all the monkeys hate a 

 negro ; but the experiment was recently tried on a 

 large scale, and the scope of animal antipathy for the 

 dark-skinned races was found to extend far beyond the 

 monkey-house. When Mr. Hagenbeck's Somalis were 

 at the Crystal Palace, they were invited one Sunday 

 to see the Zoo, whither they went, accompanied by 

 Mr. Menzies, the African explorer and hunter, who 

 had brought them from Somaliland. There was 

 nothing to which the most sensitive European could 

 object in the appearance of these free, half-Arab tribes- 

 men, and much that was most attractive. They were 

 straight and tall ; they had high noses, fine eyes, white 

 teeth, and a skin the colour of a not quite ripe black 

 grape. They were strict Moslems, exquisitely cleanly, 

 washing constantly, not only their limbs and bodies, but 

 their teeth and hair. They dressed in the whitest of 

 linen, and carried weapons of the brightest steel, 



