Show A WHITE BABOON A white baboon declared to be the only one ever heard of has arrived in Bedford England from South Africa Two years ago says the New York World orld some trek Boers came upon thIs baboon and its mother in the Mur- Mur Mur-chisa Mur chisa range in the district of Johannes Johannes- J ohannes- ohannes burg Johannesburg After a fierce fight the mother was killed and the young male w was was s led away away in captivity He was brought up in Africa and has just been taken to toEn Elgland En land We He is now full grown being between I three and four feet in height He is is- is pure white in color He is a very heavy grown well grown baboon and excites atten atten- attention attention tion by his ceaseless activity He has a remarkably powerful voice resembling the bark of a large dog but harsher and further reaching Rest and quiet are not possible in his neighborhood This baboon is possibly a member o 0 oa a white variety of the chacma family or possibly I a case of albinism which is found occasionally in most classes of animals The chacma or pig-faced pig baboon is a native of South Africa where he is very frequently found and is the largest of the baboon family He ordinarily grows to be as large as a mastiff mastiff but is much heavier It is the custom of his species to travel around in troops These would be very formidable parties for tor formen men to encounter i if if the the baboons were not in the habit of running away When I angered however or pressed by hunger they occasionally attack men and human d dwellings They are very noisy and playful bad and generally not tempered bad The fur is usually brown in color The baboon is not easily domesticated but he has been occasionally There There- are records ofa of a famous baboon haboon who who used used to sit in a chair at Exeter Change in London smoke a pipe pip and drink gin ginand ginand and water A fondness for alcoholic stimulants is frequent in the monkey family |