4 Animal Life 
many customs of man and executes them 
with great skill and precision. Many of 
them acquire the habit of smoking; some 
of using intoxicants; others eat with 
knife, fork and spoon; a few learn to use 
a crayon or pencil with some degree of 
skill; several have become expert in riding 
the tricycle and one has learned to mde a 
bicycle. Of all animals known to science, 
the chimpanzee is of the greatest interest 
and is now being studied with more care 
than ever before and gains more attention 
from the masses than any other animal in 
captivity. I have taught some of them 
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to select and associate colours, geometrical T TH CAGE 
i : oan o es Several monkeys (always with a leader at their head) 
forms and SIZES. . In fact they have would often, come as close as they dare to examine 
acquired all the rudiments of art and logic Professor Garner's cage in the jungle. 
and take very kindly to trainmg. Their 
minds are active and thei faces. mobile and expressive. They evince all the human 
passions and emotions, are equally capable of mirth and grief, and some of them 
evince a strong sense of humour which they sometimes express in the form of a 
practical joke. 
One that I had in hand for a time was given to frequent fits of temper but 
instead of whipping him for it ITused a rubber ball with a small hole in one side. 
Filling the ball with water and spurting it into his face always had a good effect on 
him. He disliked having this done and the instant he saw the ball he became quiet 
and docile. At first he was greatly puzzled. He often played with the ball and had 
never found any water about it. On one occasion, after having turned the battery 
upon him, I refilled the ball so as to 
repeat the dose if necessary. He 
watched the operation, then  sidled 
around so as to be out of range and 
took hold of my hand. I offered him 
the wet ball but he dechned to touch 
it. He pulled and pushed at my 
hand as if to see whether or not 
the thing was loaded. To amuse 
him I spurted the water at a small 
monkey in a cage in front of me. 
The monkey jumped with surprise and 
looked about him to find out where 
the water came from. This diverted 
the ape and he kept trying to get me 
to spurt more water on it, but I 
turned the stream away and for a 
while continued to amuse him until 
he finally caught the idea of pressing 
the ball. I gave it to him but he 
ie ee was very awkward in using it. As 
Mhese apes have very long arms andican swing enormous soon as he learned how to squeeze it 
distances, an authentic report credits one of them with he turned it upon the monkey and I 
leaping 42 fect from the limb of one tree to that of another. 
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