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probable effect of applying leverage, or perhaps that he remembered 
what he had done on a former occasion, and endeavoured to repeat 
his action with a different instrument. One noted too, that while 
on the former occasion, when he had a knife, he inserted it between 
the tiles of his floor, he seemed to be aware, without making any 
trial of it, that the piece of wood could not be used in the same 
way, but required different conditions for its exercise. 
THe New CuHIMpANZEE.—The new Chimpanzee presented to 
the Park by Mr Kenneth Burbridge of Freetown, Sierra Leone, 
is now on view in the Acclimatisation House. The newcomer is 
a young female probably two or three years old, and is a very 
important and interesting addition to the attractions of the place. 
Mr Burbridge has proved a very good friend to the Park: it was he 
who obtained and brought home the white monkey which was 
noticed in an earlier column of these notes, and he has also pre- 
sented a number of mangabey monkeys and civets. Mr Burbridge 
had, in fact, obtained three Chimpanzees, but unfortunately one 
escaped on the journey to the coast, and another died before leaving 
Sierra Leone. The newcomer is particularly tame and gentle, and 
one of her accomplishments is shown in a keen inclination to greet 
everybody who approaches her by a formal shaking of hands. She 
is very lively and playful, and seems at present in excellent health. 
The Chimpanzee is probably the most intelligent of all living 
animals next to man. In a wild state it apparently has sufficient 
intelligence to supplement the powers of its own body by using 
stones and sticks to throw or strike with at an enemy. This shows 
a considerable advance beyond the intellectual level of most other 
animals, with the exception, perhaps, of some of the Chimpanzee’s 
near relatives, and anyone who watches a Chimpanzee in captivity 
will be almost certain to see some examples of what are evidently 
thought and reason.—T. H. G. 
