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THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD 
Photo by A. S. Rudland & Sons] 
HEAD OF MALE MANDRILL 
This is one of the most hideous of living animals. The natives of 
West Africa hold it in greater dislike even than the large carnivora, 
from the mischief it does to their crops 
utter the 
forests, 
Photo by L. Medland, F.Z.S., North Finchley 
BROWN CAPUCHIN 
of America, It uses many sounds to express 
emotions, and perhaps desires 
putting their heads almost upside-down in 
efforts at acute criticism at low and musical 
passages. Every change of note was marked 
by some alteration of expression in the faces 
of the excited little monkeys, and a series of 
discordant notes roused them to a passion 
of rage.” At the same time a big baboon, 
chained up near, evidently disliked it. He 
walked off in the opposite direction to the 
farthest limits of his chain. 
THE AMERICAN MONKEYS 
Mention of the Capuchins takes us to 
the whole group of the American Monkeys. 
Nearly all of these live in the tropical forests 
of Brazil, Guiana, Venezuela, and Mexico. 
They are all different from the Old World 
monkeys, and many are far more beautiful. 
The most attractive of the hardier kinds are 
the Capuchins; but there are many kinds of 
rare and delicate little monkeys more beauti- 
ful than any squirrel, which would make the 
most delightful pets in the world, if they were 
not so delicate. To try to describe the Old 
World monkeys in separate groups from end 
to end is rather a hopeless task. But the 
American monkeys are more manageable by 
the puzzled amateur. Most of them havea 
broad and marked division between the nos- 
trils, which are not mere slits close together, but’like the nostrils of men. 
human-looking rounded heads. 
They also have 
Their noses are of the “cogitative” order, instead of being 
snouts or snubs with narrow 
openings in them; and the 
whole face is in many ways 
human and intelligent. The 
Hower Monkeys, which 
most hideous 
sounds ever heard in the 
and the 
Monkeys are the largest. 
The latter have the most 
wonderfully developed 
limbs and tails for catching 
and climbing of any living 
animals. As highly special- 
ised creatures are always 
interesting, visitors to any 
zoological garden will find 
The most intelligent of the common monkeys it worth while to watch a 
spider monkey climbing, 
SPIDER 
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Photo by L, Medland, F.Z.8., North Finchley 
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DRILL 
Only less ugly than the Mandrill, Its habits ari 
the same 
