. Zoological Society bulletin . wilds or the prompting of parentalinfluence. The iguana sent them scurrying upthe bars of the cage, but the snake threw theminto a state of intense fear. The writer remem-bers Baldy investigating the snake basket afew months ago. As the unsuspecting apethrew back the cover, he uttered the equivalentto a scream of terror, sprang from the basket,and hurled himself up the bars, whence heclimbed to the top of the cage, every hair onhis body standing on end. As Baldy lookeddown at the snake, his lips were drawn back ina snarl of rage, utterly foreign to this good-tem
. Zoological Society bulletin . wilds or the prompting of parentalinfluence. The iguana sent them scurrying upthe bars of the cage, but the snake threw theminto a state of intense fear. The writer remem-bers Baldy investigating the snake basket afew months ago. As the unsuspecting apethrew back the cover, he uttered the equivalentto a scream of terror, sprang from the basket,and hurled himself up the bars, whence heclimbed to the top of the cage, every hair onhis body standing on end. As Baldy lookeddown at the snake, his lips were drawn back ina snarl of rage, utterly foreign to this good-tempered animal. The other large apes weresimilarly affected. Instinct is a word too oftenused in theoretically explaining the actionsof really intelligent animals; but in the case ofthese captive-reared apes, the intense abhorrencenoted appears to be an instinctive fear devel-oped by creatures whose parents inhabited acountry that is generously supplied with dan-gerous reptiles, but who themselves never saw aserpent in a NfSPHH DOUBLE NORWHAL acquired for the National Collection of Headsand Horns. ZOOLOGICAT. SOCIETY BULLETIN. 759
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