26 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD 
these New World species. No person 
clever at interpreting the ways of ani- 
mals would fail to consider them far 
more clever and sympathetic than the 
melancholy anthropoid apes, while 
for appearance they have no equals. 
Probably the most attractive monkey 
in Europe is a South American one 
now in the London Zoological Gardens. 
It was first mentioned to Europeans by 
Baron von Humboldt, who saw it in the 
cabin of an Indian on the Orinoco. 
These forest Indians of South America 
are gentle creatures themselves. Among 
‘other amiable qualities, they have a ~~ 
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passion for keeping pets. One who BLACK~EARED MARMOSET 
worked for a friend of the writer, with These are among the prettiest of aie ae ee in America: they are 
others of his tribe, was asked what he a a el aed 
would take in payment, which was given in kind. The others chose cloth, axes, etc. This. 
Indian said that he did not care for any of these things. He said he wanted a “ poosa.” No 
one knew what he meant. He signed that he wished to go to the house and would show them. 
Arrived there, he pointed to the cat! “ Pussy,” to the Arawak Indian, was a “ poosa,” and that 
was what he wanted as a month’s wages. Humboldt’s Indian had something better than a 
“ poosa.” It was a monkey, as black as coal, with a round head, long thickly furred tail, and 
bright vivacious eyes. The explorer called it the Lacorurix, which means Hare-skin Monkey. 
The fur is not the least like a hare’s, but much resembles that of an opossum. The more suitable 
name is the Wootty Monkey. The one kept at the Gardens is a most friendly and vivacious. 
creature, ready to embrace, play and make friends with any well-dressed person. It dislikes. 
people in working-clothes which are dirty or soiled—a not uncommon aversion of clever animals. 
In spite of all the vari- 
eties of temperament in the 
monkey tribe, from the genial 
little Capuchins to the morose 
old baboon, they nearly all 
have one thing in common— 
that is, the monkey brain. 
The same curious restlessness, 
levity, and want of concentra- 
tion mark them all, except the 
large anthropoid apes. Some 
of these have without doubt 
powers of reflection and con- 
centration which the other 
monkeys do not possess. But 
in all the rest, though the 
capacity for understanding 
exists, the wish to please, as 
Photo hy L, Medland, F.Z,S.] 
[North Finchley 
HUMBOLDT’S WOOLLY MONKEY a dog does, and the desire 
This is the most popular monkey in captivity. He looks for all the world like a Negro, and has to remember and to retain 
a most beautiful, soft, woolly coat, He is very tame. and loves nothing better than being petted what it has learnt, seem 
