IV. 



THE MOST AMIABLE BABY. 



The most amiable and altogether lovely mon- 

 key baby that ever lived among people is the 

 baby chimpanzee. He is a roly-poly little fellow, 

 with a large head and long arms, and his face 

 looks like one of our babies', for it is light- 

 colored and smooth, and the hair on his head is 

 longer than it is in most monkeys. 



For two or three weeks, too, he is as helpless 

 as a human baby, and has to be carried every- 

 where ; but then there begins to be a difference. 

 He tries to get about alone, and it is only a few 

 weeks before he can run around as well as any 

 of his family. He goes on all-fours, stepping on 

 the knuckles of his hands, and never laying them 

 out flat on the palm. 



He grows up faster than our babies ; at six 

 weeks old he begins to eat fruit, and long before 

 a human baby leaves off his milk diet, the baby 

 chimpanzee eats everything his mother does, and 

 is able to scramble about in the trees in a way 

 that no human baby, however old or skillful, can 

 ever do. He is quite grown up at nine or ten 

 years old. 



