Identifier: allaboutanimalsf00newy (find matches)
Title: All about animals. Facts, stories and anecdotes
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Animals
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bros
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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the trees, shakingthe branches and causing a shower of ripe, golden peaches. Meanwhile otherswould scamper round on the ground, grabbing up what they could, and then BARDARY APES. once more retire, chattering with delight, to the safety of the high trees. Thesun being hot and the man out of breath, he naturally lost his temper andwent for a gun. This did not trouble the monkeys, for they had seen weaponspointed at them before, but never fired. The man rushed to the fence uponwhich a number of monkeys were still perched, and, picking out one offender,he fired. The poor creature set up a howl of pain as it fell, and then, to theamazement of the man, held out to him its bloody, shattered, little hand. Ina moment or two it toppled over dead, and, regardless of the danger, theother monkeys scrambled over the fence and bore the body away. The resultwas that the monkeys retired from that spot, and the magistrate gathered hispeaches in peace ; but the man never after raised a gun to a monkey.
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v^^$N\\ BARBARY APES. BARBARY APES. The Barbary Apes, or Magots, are inhabitants of Northern Africa,fhey also have the only ape foothold in Europe, on the Rock of Gibraltar THE BARBARY APE. There is a very fine legend among the Arabs to the effect that these apescrossed from Africa to Gibraltar by climbing to the top of a peak on the Afri-can side, and taking hold of tails until a long chain was formed, and thenswinging back and forth until the end monkey caught hold of the Rock of Gib-raltar. The others passed over on the bridge thus formed, and the apes onthe African side let go. This is an excellent story; but the Straits of Gibral-tar are nearly twenty miles wide, and the Barbary apes have no tails. It isbelieved that these apes were brought to Gibraltar by the Moors. The size of this ape is about twen-ty-eight inches, and its general color is ofa grayish-brown. They are fairly com-mon in a domestic state in Europe, fre-quently being seen in an undignifiedposition on top of an Ita

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