13 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD 
the menageries is a separate species or 
only the young of some one of the above- 
mentioned is not very clear. But about 
another variety there can be no doubt. It 
has been separated from the rest since the 
days of the Pharaohs. It does not differ in 
habits from the other baboons, but inhabits 
the rocky parts of the Nile Valley. It 
appears in Egyptian mythology under the 
name of Thoth, and is constantly seen in 
the sculptures and hieroglyphs. 
Equally strong and far more repulsive 
are the two baboons of West A frica—the 
Dritt and the Manpritt. As young 
Photo by Le Medland, F.Z.8.) —— [North Finchley Specimens of these beasts are the only ones 
RHESUS MONKEYS at all easily caught, and these nearly always 
This photograph is particularly interesting. It was actually taken by another die when cutting their second teeth when in 
monkey, which pressed the button of Mr. Medland’s camera captivity, large adult mandrills are seldom 
seen in Europe. They grow to a great 
size, and are probably the most hideous of all beasts. The frightful nose, high cheek-bones, and 
pig-like eyes are the basis of the horrible heads of devils and goblins which Albert Durer and 
other German or Dutch medizval painters sometimes put on canvas. Add to the figure the mis- 
placed bright colours—cobalt-blue on the cheeks, which are scarred, as if by a rake, with scarlet 
furrows, and scarlet on the but- 
tocks—and it will be admitted that 
nature has invested this massive, 
powerful, and ferocious baboon 
with a repulsiveness equaling in 
completeness the extremes of 
grace and beauty manifested in the 
roe-deer or the bird of paradise. 
The natives of Guinea and 
other parts of West Africa have 
consistent accounts that the 
mandrills have tried to carry off 
females and children. They live 
in troops like the chacmas, 
plunder the fields, and, like all 
baboons, spend much time on 
the ground walking on all-fours. 
When doing this, they are quite 
unlike any other creatures. They 
walk slowly, with the head bent 
downwards, like a person walking 
on hands and knees looking for 
a pin. With the right hand 
(usually) they turn over every 
stick and stone, looking for insects, Photo by A. 8, Rudland & Sons 
scorpions, or snails, and these they ORANGE SNUB-NOSED MONKEY 
seizeandeat. The writer has seen This should be contrasted with the Proboscis Monkey 
