FOOD OF VARIOUS ANIMALS AND BIRDS. 



MONKEYS. 



In feeding the various kinds of monkeys it will be 

 found that the more varied the food, and the more often 

 changed, the better they thrive. Many of the Old World 

 monkeys live much on fruit, leaves, tender branches, and 

 buds of flowers. The ourang, chimpanzee, Hylohates, 

 gibbons, Semnopithecus, and Golobus group are less insect- 

 ivorous and carnivorous than most of the others. 



Most of these -will, especially during the winter, improve 

 by the addition to their food of a little animal substance. 



I have found the following mode of feeding answer 

 admirably for a large number of the common species : — 



Mix boiled rice, pea-flour, scalded bread, boiled carrot 

 and potatoes, a little sugar, and some raw or boiled meat 

 ground fine in a sausage-machine. Mix the above into a 

 stiff pudding, break off in lumps as big as walnuts, and 

 let each monkey be fed two or three times a day. Give 

 them bread-and-milk now and then for a change ; nuts, 

 biscuit, dry bread, wheat, peas dry ; Indian com, dry or 

 boiled, fruit ; green leaves of many different kinds. 



Always take care that the fruit and green food be fresh 

 and good. See also that the animals are not relaxed by 

 the food being too moist. 



The New World monkeys feed more upon insects and 

 small animals. Many of them are excessively fond of 



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