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guard, he will jump suddenly upon his head in an endeavour 
to knock him over. A hand-to-hand scuffle immediately 
ensues, in which Moritz always comes off best, on account 
of his superior agility. He quickly escapes from the clutches 
of the orang, and a few leaps take him to the other end of 
the cage. He is followed clumsily and deliberately by the 
larger animal, but is never caught. As the orang does not 
leap, he is never able to catch his tormentor, who keeps just 
out of reach. 
In his many attempts to escape from captivity, Moritz is 
most ingenious and amusing. When we shut off a corner of 
the giraffe house for the use of the apes, we did not think it 
necessary to carry the partition right up to the roof. The 
house, having been built to accommodate giraffes, was of 
course very high, and it never occurred to us as possible that 
the apes might succeed in scaling the wooden partition which 
we erected. Nevertheless Moritz did succeed in doing so. 
When the keeper came along one day, he found the chim- 
panzee among the giraffes, and could not imagine how he 
had got there. He afterwards found that he had employed 
the following device: Up against the wooden partition stood 
a wooden box which served as a sleeping place for the apes. 
There was also kept in the cage a large tin globe. Moritz 
had acquired a considerable influence over the lady orang, 
Rosa, and he persuaded her to assist him in his efforts to 
escape. By their united strength, they were able to push the 
tin globe over to the sleeping box and set it on the top. 
When this had been done Rosa stood upon the globe, up 
against the wall, while Moritz climbed up on her shoulders. 
From there he was just able by a vigorous bound to reach 
the top of the partition with his hands. It was then scarcely 
the work of a moment to draw himself up, and drop gently 
among the giraffes. These animals paid little attention to the 
chimpanzee, but if they came near him he would throw some- 
thing at them asa hint to mind their own business. When we 
had discovered the method of the ape’s escape, we thought we 
