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allusion to Sir W. Hoste’s Memoirs, given by Jesse as 
follows : — 
One of his officers, coming home after a long day’s shoot- 
ing, saw a female monkey running along the rocks, with 
her young one in her arms. He immediately fired, and the 
animal fell. On his coming up, she grasped her little one close 
to her breast, and with her other hand pointed to the wound 
which the ball had made, and which had entered above her 
breast. Dipping her finger in the blood, and then holding it 
up, she seemed to reproach him with being the cause of her 
death, and consequently that of the young one, to which she 
frequently pointed. ‘ I never,’ says Sir William, ‘felt so much 
as when I heard the story, and I determined never to shoot one 
of these animals as long as I lived .’ 1 
Mr. Darwin says that most persons who have observed 
monkeys have seen them show a sense of the ludicrous. 
Here is an instance w T hich I have myself observed, and 
now quote from my article in the ‘ Quarterly Journal of 
Science : 5 — 
Several years ago I used to watch carefully the young orang- 
outang in the Zoological Gardens, and I am quite sure that 
she manifested a sense of the ludicrous. One example will suffice. 
Her feeding tin was of a somewhat peculiar shape, and when it 
was empty she used sometimes to invert it upon her head. 
The tin then presented a comical resemblance to a bonnet, and 
as its wearer would generally favour the spectators with a broad 
grin at the time of putting it on, she never failed to raise a 
laugh from them. Her success in this respect was evidently 
attended with no small gratification on her part. 
But perhaps the strongest evidence of monkeys 
having an appreciation of the ludicrous is the same as 
that which we have seen to be presented in the case of 
certain dogs — namely, in the animals disliking ridicule. 
Abundant evidence on this head in the case of monkeys 
will be given further on. 
That monkeys enjoy play no one can question who 
spends on hour or two in the monkey-house at the 
Zoological Gardens. According to Savage, chimpanzees 
congregate together for the sole purpose of play, when 
1 Gleanings, vol. iii. pp. 86-7. 
