. Mammals of other lands;. Mammals. APES, MONKEYS, AND LEMURS 27 almost entirely wanting. Egoism, which is a sign of humam dementia, is a very leading characteristic of all monkeys. There is no doubt that the baboons might be trained to be useful animals if they always served one master. Le Vaillant and many other travelers have noted this. But they are too clever, and at the bottom too ill-tempered ever to be trust- worthy, even regarded as " watches," or to help in minor manual labour. Baboons would make an excellent substitute for dogs as used in Belgium for light draught; but no
. Mammals of other lands;. Mammals. APES, MONKEYS, AND LEMURS 27 almost entirely wanting. Egoism, which is a sign of humam dementia, is a very leading characteristic of all monkeys. There is no doubt that the baboons might be trained to be useful animals if they always served one master. Le Vaillant and many other travelers have noted this. But they are too clever, and at the bottom too ill-tempered ever to be trust- worthy, even regarded as " watches," or to help in minor manual labour. Baboons would make an excellent substitute for dogs as used in Belgium for light draught; but no one could ever rely on their behaving themselves when their master's eye was elsewhere. Taken as a family, the monkeys are a feeble and by no means likeable race. They are "undeveloped" as a class, full of promise, but with no performance. THE LEMURS The South American monkeys, with their forms and fur, are followed by a beautiful and of creatures, called the Lemurs, with their Maholis, and Pottos. Their resemblance to their hands and feet. These are real and hands, with proper thumbs. The second always terminates in a long, sharp alist, who kept them as pets no- themselves with. Some of them sensitive disk, full of extra " Unlike the lively squirrels hiding-places till the tropicaL when they seek their but by ascending to the and again, at the iirst ap- the light in the recesses The Ring-tailed Lemur most of the race are the light seems to they turn over same inarticu- But at night they fly from so that the whether they ghosts of their. FhoU hy Ottomar jinichutx] \_Berlin PIG-TAILED MONKEY CATCHING A FLY Jllost of the smaller monkeys, asivell as the baboons, are fond of eating insects. Beetles, ivhite ants, and flies are eagerly sought and devoured squirrel-like ^ interesting group cousins the Lorises, monkeys is mainly in very highly developed toe on the hind foot nearly claw. " Elia," the Indian natur- ticed that they used this to scratch have the fi
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