. Beasts and men, being Carl Hagenbeck's experiences for half a century among wild animals;. Animal training; Menageries; Zoological specimens; Zoos. ANTHROPOID APES 285 course still more sensitive to corporal punishment. Moritz, on the other hand, is a more thick-skinned and robust animal ; not so easily controlled by either mode of reproof. The keeper finds it necessary, therefore, when he has to be made to do something, to keep at hand a stick on which the ape's atten- tion may constantly fall. When, for instance, he has to be photographed, he is seized with an irresistible inclination to w
. Beasts and men, being Carl Hagenbeck's experiences for half a century among wild animals;. Animal training; Menageries; Zoological specimens; Zoos. ANTHROPOID APES 285 course still more sensitive to corporal punishment. Moritz, on the other hand, is a more thick-skinned and robust animal ; not so easily controlled by either mode of reproof. The keeper finds it necessary, therefore, when he has to be made to do something, to keep at hand a stick on which the ape's atten- tion may constantly fall. When, for instance, he has to be photographed, he is seized with an irresistible inclination to walk up to the camera and oraze into it from a distance which makes it impossible to take his like- ness. He requires a good deal of cajoling before he can be persuaded to take up a proper pose. The chimpanzee in these re- spects is just the opposite of the phlegmatic orang. Unlike the orangf he is a sanguine sort of individual, and very mercurial in tem- perament, changing in a moment from the brightest gaiety to the deepest de- ^iii, please, waiter 1 spondency, and vice versa. He can never keep his atten- tion fixed on one thing for more than a moment or two, but is constantly flying off at a tangent to some new idea which has taken his fancy. His latest craze has been learning how to ride a bicycle. It took him only a few weeks to perform this feat, and he now rides astonishingly well. He appears to find it great fun, moreover, and pedals about with such vigour in my animal park that the trainer is hard put to it to keep up with him. For looking after these anthropoids I have secured a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hagenbeck, Carl, 1844-1913. London, New York [etc. ] : Longmans, Green, and Co.
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