CHAPTER XIV. 



Monkeys and the Mirror. — Some of their Antics. — Baby Ma- 

 caque and her Papa. — Some other Monkeys. 



I have incidentally mentioned elsewhere the 

 use of the mirror in some of my experiments, 

 but I have not described in detail how it affected 

 various monkeys. Of course, it does not always 

 affect the same monkey' in the same way at 

 all times, nor does it affect all monkeys of the 

 same species in exactly the same way, and 

 therefore I cannot deduce a rule from my expe- 

 riments by which the species can be determined 

 by its conduct before the glass. 



When Puck saw himself in the mirror he un- 

 doubtedly mistook the image for another monkey, 

 to which he would talk more freely than he 

 would to the sounds made by the phonograph. 

 He would frequently caress the image and show 

 signs of friendship; at the same time he was 

 very timid and retiring. 



Nellie would chatter to herself in the mirror, 



and seemed never to tire of looking at the beau- 



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