ZOOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY BULLETIN 



No. lO Pl'blished by The Nkw York Zoological Socilty July. 1903 



TRAINING ORANGS AND CHIMPANZEES 



BY RAYMOND L. DITMARS. 



eURAIOR OK REl'TII.KS 



TW'U iilca> were in iiiind whun the train- 

 ing of orang-utans and chimpanzees 

 l)egan in the I'ark. One was to furnish an 

 exhiltition which would amuse the crowds of 

 cliildren, and tile other to furnish interesting 

 jjsycliological demonstrations of the intelli- 

 gence of these apes and the facility with 

 which they adapt themselves to manners 

 "aping" mankind. The orang dinner parties. 



the antics of Rajah un his velocipede, and the 

 solemn dignity (jf Polly, the chimpanzee, 

 when dining in puhlic, all are features famil- 

 iar to thousands who have visited the Park 

 in midsummer. The education of these aiii- 

 mals embraceil an extremel\- interesting 

 series of events. 



Usually, the training of wild animals is as- 

 sociated with the long crack-wlii]), or possi- 



