. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. PIG-TAILED MACAQUES. Natives of Sumatra, Borneo, and the Malay Peninsula, and are called Bruh, or "Climbers of Palms," by the natives, on account of their fondness for the fruit of these trees. They are harmless and -easily domesticated. The artist has sketched them with their favorite food, the hand of one of the animals resting of Spain, that the band of comfortably upon it. (Macacus n these Monkeys at Qibral- forehead up and down, puts
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. PIG-TAILED MACAQUES. Natives of Sumatra, Borneo, and the Malay Peninsula, and are called Bruh, or "Climbers of Palms," by the natives, on account of their fondness for the fruit of these trees. They are harmless and -easily domesticated. The artist has sketched them with their favorite food, the hand of one of the animals resting of Spain, that the band of comfortably upon it. (Macacus n these Monkeys at Qibral- forehead up and down, puts the snout forward, and presses the lips together in such a way as to form a small and perfectly round hole. The Magot inhab- its mountainous regions, and is as much at home on rocks as on trees. It is said that it feeds on in- sects and worms like the Baboon, and therefore keeps lifting up stones, which occasionally roll down hill and endanger the safety of passers-by. It is also thought to be very fond of Scorpions ; very adroitly twisting off their poisonous tails, and then eating tiie bodies. But it is also satisfied with small- er insects and worms, and the smaller the game the more zealously it is hunted, and the more voraciously it is eaten. The prey is carefully taken up, gazed upon with a satisfied chuckle, and speedily de- voured. The Troop of The Magot Magots at is the only Gibraltar. Monkey that inhabits Europe in a wild state. I was told when I visited the south hands are of a light copper color ; the callosities of .a vivid red. The female lets her tail hang down, while the male curves his laterally and inwardly. The Magot, or The most important of all Macaques in "Barbary a certain respect is the Magot, Barbary APe-" Ape, or Tailless Ape {Macacus syl- vanus, or Inuus ecaudatus) the only Monkey living in the wild state in Europe. As he possesses no tail, he has lately been considered as a representative of a different species, but usually he is known as
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