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had to interfere. He soon learned both to fill and to squeeze the ball without 
ditficulty. He was careful to keep the hole turned away from himself, but he cared 
very little for the welfare of others. When permitted he never failed to give the 
little monkey a spurt and neyer tired of doimg the trick. To turn it upon a dog 
was equally funny to him and the twitch of his risibles plainly told what passion was 
ruling his mmd. ‘The laughing and crying of a chimpanzee are equally humanlike. 
The gorilla comes second below man in the scale of nature. Alive, and in the 
forest he does not look very much like the pictures in books nor does he act as the 
specimens 1n museums indicate, but behaves himself much the same as other animals 
do. They are crafty woodsmen and always on the alert for danger. By nature they 
are morose, often sullen and always 
resentful, but they will not attack man 
unless provoked to it. Then they are no 
doubt very formidable. They evince a 
strong aversion to man. ‘They are slow to 
acquire and loth to practice any civilized 
habit, but within thei own sphere of life 
they are quick to perceive and prompt 
to act. None of them have lived long in 
captivity even in their native climate. 
Third in rank is the ouran. His 
physical type alone gives him this place. 
In mind he is as stupid as a lemur, and 
in action, as clumsy as a sloth. It is 
true that certain features of the head are 
very humanlike, especially in the young, 
but no other ape is less ike man in mental 
qualities. He is passive in temper and 
acts more like a slot-machine than a hving 
thing. They seldom live long in captivity 
or learn anything worthy of note. I have 
neyer been guilty of owning one, but I 
have studied five or six specimens from 
which I make the deductions set forth. 
The picture given in the headpiece shows 
the face type of the genus, which strongly 
resembles that of man, but the expression 
is more like that of a pie. 
The fourt. place in the scale is 
occupied by a genus of apes, of which there 
are seven or eight species. It is difficult to 
Geet 
GORILLA MOTHER WITH YOUNG. 
This particular ape came quite near to Professor Garner’s cage, 
presenting a splendid opportunity to him of shooting the 
mother and securing the young, but as this would have 
defeated the object of his residence in the jungle (by frighten- 
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say which of three is of the highest type. ing away other apes and monkies) they were allowed to escape 
They have about equal claims to it. The lowest of them is no doubt the siamang. 
The gibbon is one of the most interesting genera of all the apes, though the smallest 
in size, the shape of the head and proportions of the brain are much like those of man. 
It is quite impossible in one brief article to review in detail either the physical or 
mental characters of this group of apes and I must devote the space at my disposal 
to my recent work among the monkeys. 
In the delta regions of the Ogowé river in Africa, are vast numbers of monkeys 
and it is only natural to suppose that any person living there could, at any time, see 
schools of them, but such is not the case. By constant efforts and lberal baiting it 
