THE LIVING WORLD. 
baboons <Cynocephalus babuiu }. 
creature had robbed the goddess of the rainbow of her palette and brushes. 
Its cheek-bones are ridged into pouches and add to the ugliness of the creature 
—at least as tried by the laws of Greek 
aesthetics. Like all the monkey tribe, the 
mandrill is capricious and liable to sud¬ 
den fits of anger, but unlike most of the 
monkeys, he is unforgiving and vindic¬ 
tive after the immediate cause for his 
anger has passed away. It forms with 
its kind a sort of combination of out¬ 
laws, and its strength, cunning and 
fearlessness render it a very much dreaded 
neighbor. It will, in large bands, enter 
a village when the hunters are absent and 
help itself with the utmost disregard for 
the old men, women and children. In 
the woods it is frugivorous and insecti¬ 
vorous, but in captivity it eats almost 
anything. It is teachable and learns willingly to drink beer and spirits, and 
more reluctantly to smoke tobacco. It wears its stump of a tail pointed over 
its back and makes as much use of it in gesticulation as a sidewalk politician 
does of his hand and index 
finger. 
The Drill (Cynocepha 
lus , or Papio leucophoeus ), 
is smaller than the man¬ 
drill, its cheek-pouches are 
smaller, its colors are duller, 
with a predilection for green, 
and its hands and feet are 
copper-colored. 
The Gelada {Cyno¬ 
cephalus gelada) belongs to 
Abyssinia, is maned, brown 
except' on the fore legs and 
the feet, where it is black, 
and with a head ornamented 
like that of the macaques. 
It walks on all fours and 
sits in the way peculiar to 
the most pronounced mon¬ 
key as distinguished from 
a human being. It climbs 
trees and rocks with the 
utmost facility, and ,as the 
GROUP OF baboons. able-bodied creature goes 
about in large-sized crowds, 
it is more than abundantly able to deal with any adversary except a bullet. 
Legs, nails, jaws, and teeth are all brought into play when they engage in battle, 
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