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Title: Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia
Identifier: brehmslifeofanim1896breh (find matches)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884; Pechuel-Loesche, Edward, 1840-1913; Haacke, Wilhelm, 1855-1912; Schmidtlein, Richard
Subjects: Mammals; Animal behavior
Publisher: Chicago : Marquis
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36 THE APES AND MOXKEYS. with her always found the little Monkey ready to defend her in case of need, sitting on her shoulder or in her lap. Once her mistress was very sick, and the animal became sad and melancholy and would sit for hours at the door of the sick-room, demand- ing admission. After several weeks she was let in, when she immediately jumped on the bed, put her arms around my wife's neck, uttering a plaintive little sound, and could not be taken away again. Muido's Vocal " This little Monkey had a very wide Accomplish- range of vocal sounds. We distin- ments. guished thirteen different sounds, or groups of sounds, that she could utter, ranging from a low, musical chirping or purring, expressive of
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BONNET MONKEY. Found in the hot regions of Asia and Africa, and is quite common in captivity, its amusing tricks making it very popular in museums and zoological gardens. It has very large cheek-pouches and stows away in them the greatest possible number of nuts. It is fond of hugging and nursing other animals and of searching their bodies for vermin. Its color is an olive-gray and the hair of the head is parted in the middle. (Afaca- i. us.) contentment or of a request for some favor, to the yelling and shrieking of anger ; from a softly uttered ' took took,' when she was alone in a dark room, and slightly nervous, to a loud 'teck' that came with a violent fright. There were all kinds of cry- ing- gurgling, screaming, grunting, each expressing different stages and kinds of excitement. The most wonderful of all was what we used to call her 'greet- ing to the sun.' When the sun shone bright in the morning, she would look up a specially luminous spot on the table or on the floor, make strange gestures, lilt her arms with a slightly swinging mo- tion, and then, addressing the sun, would give us in a loud, deep lone something like the greater half of a chromatic scale, always ending with a dec-)), long- drawn ' o.' They were the strangest of sounds, and I never heard the like from any other Monkey." (Other well-known members of the Guenon group are the Mona, Talapoin and Red-bellied Monkeys, all of which are distinguished for the beauty of their fur and their striking appearance.) MACAQUES. A great variety of Monkeys are comprised in the genus Macaque (Macac?is) in Western Africa, but scientifically speaking there are only a few kinds having a right to this name, and they, with one ex- ception, inhabit southeastern Asia. In general the Macaques have the following distinguishing traits : they are of sturdy build ; ':':.•..." • • the limbs are of moderate length; the snout pro- jects about as much as- that of the Guenons; and the tail may be as long as the body, or quite stunted. The cheek- pouches and callosities- are well developed. A further peculiarity of these animals is, that the hair on the head of some shows a decided parting, while in others it assumes the shape of a huge wig, and the beard, lacking in some, is of unrivalled growth in others. In former ages they ranged over a great part of Europe, and even now they go farther north than other Monkeys. The short-tailed species in- habit the north of Africa, China and Japan; the long-tailed breeds are na- tives of the East Indies. They resemble both the Guenons and the Bab- oons, and live sometimes in forests like the former, sometimes on rocks like the latter. As to charac- ter, they seem to possess- the impudence of both ; in youth they are playful and good-natured like the Guenons ; in old age they are crabbed and cross like the Baboons. The Common The best known of this group is the Macaque of Common Macaque or Monjet (Maca- Jaua. Cl(s cynomolgtis), a native of Java. He attains a length of three and a half feet, the tail being about twenty inches long. The hair on the head of the male is pressed down flat, while that of the female forms a crest. Their color is brownish- green in the upper part, grayish-white in the lower ; the hands, feet and tail are black. This animal is a native of eastern Asia, especially of the great Sunda Islands. Nearly every ship that reaches Europe from the East Indies has a number of these Monk- eys on board, as they can be purchased very reason- ably from the natives(and many of them find their way to America). The Monkey cages in zoological

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