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to it. This Monkey is active, intelligent, and easily tamed. 
The Jardin des Plantes, in Paris, and the Zoological Gardens of 
London, possess several living specimens. 
Genus Magot . — A single species, the Magot (Fig. 256), composes 
this genus. The fundamental distinctive character of the genus 
Magot consists in the absence of a tail. 
Fig. 256. — Magots ( Macacus Inuus). 
The Magot has been known for a very long time. The ancients 
named it Pithecus s) . Strabo and Aristotle have mentioned 
it. It was from its skeleton that Galen, a celebrated physician 
of Pergamos, and who flourished at Pome, a.d. 170, under the 
Emperor Marcus Aurelius, composed his anatomy of Man. At 
that period, and indeed up to the fourteenth century of our era, 
