. Mammals of other lands;. Mammals. THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD evident that she understands the words seven, eight, nine, and ten to betoken numbers highei than those below them. When she was asked for any number above six, she always gave some number over six and under ten She sometimes doubled over a straw to make it present two ends, and was supposed (thus) to hasten the attainment of her ; By no means all the chimpanzees are so patient as Sally. One kept in the Zoological Gardens for some time made an incessant noise by stamping on the back of the box in which it was confine
. Mammals of other lands;. Mammals. THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD evident that she understands the words seven, eight, nine, and ten to betoken numbers highei than those below them. When she was asked for any number above six, she always gave some number over six and under ten She sometimes doubled over a straw to make it present two ends, and was supposed (thus) to hasten the attainment of her ; By no means all the chimpanzees are so patient as Sally. One kept in the Zoological Gardens for some time made an incessant noise by stamping on the back of the box in which it was confined. It struck this with the flat of its foot while hanging to the cross-bar or perch, and made a prodigious din. This seems to bear out the stories of chimpanzees assembling and drumming on logs in the Central African forests. The Gorilla The name of this enormous ape "has been known since 450 b. c. Hanno the Cartha- ginian, when off Sierra Leone, met with wild men and women whom the interpreter called Gorillas. The males escaped and flung stones from the rocks,,but several These animals could not have been gorillas, but, were probably baboons. Andrew He says it is like a. photo bj A. S. Rudtand fe* Sons HEAD OF MALE GORILLA This is a photograph of one of the first gorillas enitr brought to England. It ivas sent by the famous M. du Chaillu captured. Battell, already mentioned, described the gorilla under the name of Pongo. man, but without understanding even to put a log on a fire; it kills Negroes, and drives off the elephant with clubs; it is never taken alive, but its young are killed with poisoned arrows; it covers its dead with boughs. Dr. Savage described it in 1847. Later Du Chaillu visited its haunts, and his well-known book relates how he met and killed several specimens. But Mr. Winwood Reade, who also went in quest of it, declared that Du Chaillu, like himself, never saw a live gorilla. Von Koppenfels, however, saw a family of four feeding, besides s
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