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The Magot, or Barbary Ape 
H ELLO! Whom have we here? The 
only kind of monkey that lives in Europe. 
He lives just on the Rock of Gi-bral-tar. 
He is the only one of all the ma-caque monkeys 
that has no tail. He is as large as a good-sized 
dog. The upper parts of the body and the outer 
sides of the limbs are brown with a tinge of yellow; 
but the under parts are yellowish white, while 
the face, hands, and feet are flesh-colored. These 
magots live on pine cones, nuts, figs, melons, and 
vegetables, and play havoc with the gardens of the 
farmers, for they are most mischievous. 
The Guer-e-za Monkey 
D OES not this monkey make you think of an 
old man? It is his mantle of long white 
hair, going down both sides of his back, 
and around his face, making long white side- 
whiskers and a shorter beard. Otherwise he is 
covered with jet black hair of medium length, 
except for a beautiful long plume of white hair on 
the tip of his tail. This monkey lives in the tall¬ 
est trees. He is restless, but, unlike all other 
monkeys, is said to be perfectly silent. He lives 
on fruit, seeds, and insects. He leaps from tree to 
tree over wide spaces. 
The Arabian Baboon 
D O NOT stir, because this baboon is just 
ready to spring, and sometimes, without 
running to get a start at all, they leap six 
or seven feet. He has a face something like that 
of a dog, and is about the size of a pointer. The 
male has a large mane over his neck and shoul¬ 
ders. For many hundreds of years this baboon 
has been known in Egypt, for pictures of it are 
carved on some of the oldest monuments. These 
baboons go in herds, and sometimes those herds 
have from two to three hundred monkeys in them. 
This was one of the animals that the people of 
Egypt held to be sacred, and would not injure. 
