THE MOMKE*. 



Female Ofang-or.tan of the Zoological Society's Collection, Loml 



From the account of a visi- 

 ter, we extract the following 

 passages in relation to a fe- 

 male Orang-outan, exhibited 

 in 1838, in the collection of 

 the London Zoological So- 

 ciety. 



"Dressed in its Guernsey 

 jacket and trousers, a sort of 

 clothing which it needs in our 

 climate, its appearance, seated 

 on its chair, or at the table 

 with its keeper in his private 



room, is very amusing; nor 



less so the expression of its 

 countenance, when soliciting 

 a share of the food before it : 

 it looks at its keeper, looks at 

 the tempting morsel, and pro- 

 trudes its flexible lips into the 

 form of a conical proboscis ; 

 when offered any liquid to 

 drink in a cup or saucer, it 

 does not, however, dip its lips 

 into the fluid, but holding the 

 cup in its hand, puts the rim 

 between its lips and so drains 

 up the contents, exactly as a 

 child would do under similar 

 circumstances, and with all 

 due gravity and decorum. 

 Though this animal is natu- 

 rally and habitually dull and 

 inanimate, it has its times of 

 sportiveness, When it readily 

 engages in play with those to 

 whom it is attached, and 

 courts their notice." 



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Group of Monkeys. 



Group of Monkevs 



