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FOREST AND STREAM 
January, 1920 
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THE INTELLIGENCE 
OF MONKEYS 
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the side of a tree and after a hurried 
glimpse screech out something in mon- 
key-talk, and, according to the direction 
I was stalking, the mob would shift its 
movements to evade possible contact with 
the route I was taking. 
On the North Guaso Nyiro, in British 
East Africa, while laying in wait at a 
watering hole for game, I noticed a sick 
baboon messing about in a drift that had 
accumulated about the roots of some 
palms. And with nothing else in at- 
tention I kept an eye on the chap to see 
what he was up to. It was soon evident 
that he was too weak and emaciated to 
get about with any speed and was seek- 
ing among the debris in the close vicinity 
of the water, for insects for food. And, 
although his movements were slow and 
weak, his Argus eyes soon picked me up, 
and he grunted resentfully at me a 
time or two then continued his search 
for bugs, without any apparent fright 
at my presence. 
Perhaps an hour had passed when a 
band of baboons of about a hundred — 
most likely the band to which the sick 
member belonged — came trooping down 
among the huge stones toward the water. 
Being well hidden I hoped to spend 
some time in the study of the monkeys, 
but ala's! the sick one had heard them 
before he could see them, and a feeble 
but coarse bark or two put the mob to 
fright before they had attained ground 
sufficiently high to have possibly seen 
me. 
Some Colobus monkeys we had in cap- 
tivity for a year, exhibited the most 
ability to reason and talk. Being in a 
large structure made of poultry-wire, 
they had all the advantages of the open 
and soon took to captivity as thoroughly 
as monkeys of any other variety. And 
one of them— a female about half-grown 
when captured, long before the end of 
six months when another lot to be added 
to the group had arrived — learned to 
break, by continued twisting with her 
hands, the tough wire and make an open- 
ing sufficiently large to creep through. 
There being no amount of forest at 
hand she contented herself in the 
branches of some small bushes about 
the pen, and would creep back into the 
enclosure at nightfall. But finally the 
time came when she declined to return; 
then a way had to be conjured up to re- 
capture her. 
The lad who cared for the lot, having 
hunted the greater part of his life with 
the natives, at once set to work and 
baited a snare on the outside of the pen, 
using a bent pole, string and springing 
device after the pattern of the natives, 
and with a piece of green corn for a 
bait. It worked twice — but that was all. 
After being twice snared by the hand, the 
monk would cleverly reach beneath the 
rope, turn the loop carefully aside, then 
seize the corn and scoot up to a position 
on the top of the cage displaying as 
much knowing mischief as a spoilt child. 
After having these Colobus in captivity 
about six months the natives brought 
down another consignment, a part of 
which came from the same locality. It 
was with these that I became assured 
that the “talk” between monkeys was 
limited almost exclusively to members 
of a tribe. Although six months had 
elapsed these monkeys were as people 
who had met after a prolonged absence. 
The most remarkable thing about their 
meeting was the fact that the young fe- 
male that had learned to break the cage, 
immediately taught the same trick to the 
other members of her former tribe. 
An old female that had lost her babe 
in capturing — it died from a fall to the 
ground, from the tall bamboo — exhibited 
the most striking capacity to think. She 
was naturally morose and uttered but 
few sounds, but most certainly turned 
matters in her mind before acting. 
One day when she had succeeded in 
breaking out of the cage, she espied a 
small airedale pup, with eyes not yet 
open, and with the mothers love yet 
warm for her lost babe, and with almost 
human expression of countenance, seized 
the puppy and bounded up the tallest 
tree. 
Immediately some natives who were 
laboring nearby were summoned and the 
chase began to recover the pup. Clubs 
and stones were thrown at the nimble 
kidnapper, but to no avail. With the 
pup hugged closely against her breast 
she clung to the topmost bough, which 
had bent well out at right angles be- 
neath her weight. Then a native as- 
cended the tree and started creeping out 
after her. As soon as she saw herself 
cornered she began screaming and mov- 
ing about and threatening to throw the 
puppy down. Then the danger of the 
fall injuring the pup became evident, 
but the native, exasperated at having 
been sent up after the monkey, crowded 
her, then she deliberately backed up to 
the very end of the limb, took the puppy 
by the fore paw, and holding it out and 
down at full arms-length, let it carefully 
fall; and with the utmost speed darted 
past the nigger and down the tree, and, 
before anyone could interfere, picked up 
the pup and ran up the next nearest tree. 
The same scene was repeated, but the 
pup, the next time was recovered, but 
with a badly broken nose from the fall. 
These are but a few instances of evi- 
dence that have come before my observa- 
tion, in the past number of years, that 
monkeys can and do think, reason — and 
talk. 
JAMES ALEXANDER 
HENSHALL 
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low of distant cattle and the faint tinkle 
of the sheep bell, far from the madding 
crowd and the evidences of “Grim visag’d 
war.” 
And there I met and fished with many 
brothers of the angle who had made 
the art of black bass fishing famous. 
They used the “Frankfort” reel and a 
short, supple cane rod. A few were 
fly-fishers, but most of them were bait 
fishers. Whenever opportunity occurred 
and came within the scope of my work, 
