Battle between a bulldog and Jack, a Cingalese monkey, in Worcester, England, 1799. The monkey from Ceylon, perhaps an endangereed toque macaque, Macaca sinica, jumped on the dog’s back and beat it to death with a ruler. Gamblers had given three-to-one odds on the dog killing the monkey within six minutes. Bull-dog and monkey. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Reverend Thomas Smith’s The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or Interesting Sketches of Animal History, Albion Press, James Cundee, London, 1806. Smith, fl. 1803-1818, was a writer and editor of books on natural history, religion, philosophy,

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Battle between a bulldog and Jack, a Cingalese monkey, in Worcester, England, 1799. The monkey from Ceylon, perhaps an endangereed toque macaque, Macaca sinica, jumped on the dog’s back and beat it to death with a ruler. Gamblers had given three-to-one odds on the dog killing the monkey within six minutes. Bull-dog and monkey. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Reverend Thomas Smith’s The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or Interesting Sketches of Animal History, Albion Press, James Cundee, London, 1806. Smith, fl. 1803-1818, was a writer and editor of books on natural history, religion, philosophy, ancient history and astronomy.

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