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another. The Cape 
Dutch in the Old Colony 
would rather let their 
dogs bait a lion than 
a troop of baboons. 
The rescue of the infant 
chacma which Brehm 
saw himself is a remarka- 
ble, and indeed the most 
incontestable, instance 
of the exhibition of 
courage and _ self-sacri- 
fice by a male animal. 
If the baboons were 
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Photo by L. Medland, F.Z. S., North Finchley Hee generally hable te Bliale, Dede Se Re anne Son 
GREY-CHEEKED MANGABEy Decome _ bad-tempered CH NESt Mao MUS 
when they grow old, they This monkey lives in a climate as cold as ours 
One of the small African monkeys 
could probably be 
trained to be among the most useful of animal helpers and servers; but they are so 
formidable, and so uncertain in temper, that they are almost too dangerous for attempts at 
semi-domestication. When experiments have been made, they have had remarkable results. Le 
Vaillant, one of the early explorers in South Africa, had a chacma baboon which was a better 
watch than any of his dogs. It gave warning of any creature approaching the camp at night long 
before the dogs could hear or smell it. He took it out with him when he was shooting, and used 
to let it collect edible roots for him. The latest example of a trained baboon only died a 
few years ago. It belonged to a railway signalman at Uitenhage station, about 200 miles 
up-country from Port Elizabeth, in Cape Colony. The man had the misfortune to undergo 
an operation in which both his feet were amputated, after being crushed by the wheels of a train. 
Being an ingenious fellow, he taught his baboon, which was a full-grown one, to pull him along the 
line on atrolley to the “ distant” signal. There the baboon stopped at the word of command, and 
the man would work the lever himself. But in time he taught the baboon to do it, while he sat 
on the trolley, ready to help if any mistake were made. 
The chacmas have for 
relations a number of other 
baboons in the rocky parts 
of the African Continent, 
most of which have almost 
the same habits, and are 
not very different in ap- 
pearance. Among them 
is the GELADA BaBoon, a 
species very common in 
the rocky highlands of 
Abyssinia; another is the 
Anusis BaBoon of the West 
Coast of Africa. The latter 
A Gi. is numerous round the |, pyiie t.cu/e 
Photo by York & Son, Notting Hill Portuguese settlement of Photo by A. 8, Rudland & Sons 
GRIVET MONKEY Angola. Whether the so. BONNET MONKEY, AND ARA. 
This is the small monkey commonly taken about 
with street-organs 
ealled Common Banoow of BIAN BABOON (on THE RIGHT) 
