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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
RED WHEN A YEAR OLD 
As he advanced in age, the expression of his face changed 
very materially. 
—tlien rushes for shelter. Lie usually hides 
under a heavy chair, then slowly emerges, 
glancing cautiously towards all windows in the 
room. He shows no fear of the one who sneezes, 
but appears to consider the sneeze as an em¬ 
phatic warning to take cover. All of his fears 
and doubts appear to come from imaginary 
things outside the windows. There is nothing 
in the house that he is afraid of. He lords 
it over the cat and dog, the former a particu¬ 
larly large, lazy animal; and if we make a 
move to “shoo’ the cat out of the way and Red 
notes the action, lie rushes at the cat with growls 
and barks to help in the process. He has 
been severely cuffed by the cat for pulling her 
tail and deliberately pawing over her dinner 
while she was eating, but he has no fear of her. 
He dislikes strangers and is liable to mis¬ 
construe a visitor’s actions when shaking hands. 
Red seems to think this a hostile motion on the 
visitor’s part, and has several times rushed up 
and glared at a caller, his fur bristling straight 
from his body, making him appear twice his 
normal size. 
Red is absolutely regular in habits. He is 
tucked in his blanket by the last member of the 
family retiring for the night, and makes no 
move to venture out again. He seldom wakes 
until he hears someone stirring in the morning, 
when his plaintive cry is heard at the door of 
the room where he sleeps, as he demands free¬ 
dom for the day, and breakfast. Early morn¬ 
ing is his noisiest time, for the howler appears 
to usher in the morning with many yawns, each 
accompanied by a noisy intake of breath, fol¬ 
lowed by a roar that ends in a squeal. His 
morning toilet includes much-scratching of head 
and sides, and usually the latter half of his 
marvellously prehensile tail, and then follows 
an astonishing exhibition by the tail itself. This 
THE WONDERFUL PREHENSILE TAIL 
As an infant, lie would coil his tail around an object, throw 
the end over like a half-hitch and make an 
absolutely secure loop. 
