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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH Prankish Monkeys Best Liked By Summertime Zoo Visitors By the Waters of Chemquassabamticook , T Four-Hande- Got. Lewis 0. Barrows of Maine (left) and Stephen F. Chadwick of Seattle, Wash., national commander of the American Legion, camping in the wilds of Maine, renege at the sounding of the alarm. Theyre probably tired from pronouncing Chemquassabamticook site of their fishing expedition. Right: The two anglers wash with cold lake water, preparatory to a days fishing. Plow Aids Max In Ring Comeback Max Schmeling, former worlds heavyweight champion, pictured behind the plow he used at Pommera-nia- , Germany, in training for his comeback fight with Adolph Heuser for the European championship. The plow evidently worked miracles for Der Moxie, for he knocked out Heuser in 47 seconds. I British Minister of War Inspects Territorial Army Folk Enjoy Attention From Onlookers. d Prepared by National Geographic Society. Washington, D. C. four-hand- Leslie j. ( t British minister of war, is shown during his inspection of a South London antiof several of the war stations and units in and around the city. The stations are manned by members of Britains territorial army who are undergoing their annual training. , Hore-Belish- a, aircraft station recently as he made the rounds Nazi Schuschnigg , - , v Kurt Schuschnigg Jr., son of the last chancellor of independent Austria, now a Nazi prisoner, was revealed recently as having joined the Nazi ranks as a member of the uniformed Hitler youth. The boy, 13 years old, was allowed to visit his father several times while the former chancellor was held prisoner in a Vienna hotel. , anti-aircra- ft 40 Mile Soaring Record Established Chester J. Decker of Glen Rock, N. J., recently established a new American soaring record in Elmira, N. ., for goal flight and return. Decker flew to Hammondsport and returned to Harris Hill, a round trip, in three hours, seven minutes. Previous record was belt by Richard C. duPont of Wilmington, Del., who in 1936 flew 34 miles. 40-mi- le ice and snow. Usually monkeys live in family groups, sometimes few in number, but often they flock in tremendous tribes containing hundreds of individuals. Some kinds sleep in hollow trees, others in the open, perhaps curled up in a convenient tree crotch. They are generally polygasometimes monogamous. mous, ed lion-slayi- ' ed snobs, the lion, tiger, and leopard, on the other hand, stare disdainfully past the visitor who snaps his fingers at them, says Woof, woof, or uses baby talk. People like to ie noticed and recognized, even by a monkey, and even when they oiow that this interest is largely prompted by the hope of a peanut. Monkey nature calls for careful study, and is almost as baffling as human nature. Pick up a monkey, even a tame one, and he will probably bite you. But hold out your hand invitingly and very likely he will climb aboard. He likes to be the one to take the initiative. Once well acquainted, he will probably cling to you much of the time, putting up a most outlandish fuss when deprived of that privilege. Sometimes visitors to monkey houses are greeted by a display of terrible teeth, particularly by the baboons. This is oftfen an indication of special friendship, the equivalent of a smile. Monkeys have been kept in captivity since earliest times, for they have always attracted the attention and interest of people. The Egyptians worshiped some kinds, and mummified the huge Hamadryas baboon of the Sudan. The Hamadryas is a forbidding creature and exciting to look upon. One sees it in zoos and often in circus side shows where it sits sullenly in a cage labeled gorilla. This of course, is just showmanship, baboon though this could put up a fierce and efficient fight against almost anything. King Solomon kept monkeys, probably the Rhesus, or Bengal variety, which today is brought into America by the thousands for exhibition purposes or more frequently for experimental work in biology and medicine. Shylocks daughter, in Shakespeares Merchant of Venice, traded her fathers turquoise ring for a monkey, and Shylock, furious, declared he would not have given the ring for a wilderness of monkeys. Most any zoo would, though. Children Like Them. Every child seems to want a monkey. Recently a little mountain girl from Virginia who in all her life had seen no animals at all except the domestic ones on her fathers hillside farm was guest in the National Zoological park at Washington. She spent a day looking over the collection, and that evening she declared that if she could have anything in the world she wanted, it would be a little monkey. One of the duties of a zoo director is to answer questions about pets. Except just after the circus leaves town, when people want to know how to care for the chameleons they have bought from the circus folk, monkeys are the subject of more inquiry than any other animal. What kind of monkey does not bite? Answer: It has not yet been discovered. What kind of monkey makes the best pet? Answer: Almost any young monkey; almost no grown monkey. gray-mantl- ' WNU Service. In captivity monkeys are always among the most popular of animals. This may be because the folk have something approximating a sense of humor, prankish and perverted though it often is. Their capacity for mischief amounts to genius, and they hold up a mirror of caricature before our human foibles. Another reason for the popularity of monkeys is the fact like bears and elethat phants they are interested in the public. Those superb A group of excited youngsters and interested adults look on as an attendant offers a cigarette to a monkey at the National Zoological park, Washington, D. C. Monkeys are said to really like and understand the interest and attention given them by human beings. How do you care for and feed Answer: They should monkeys? be kept warm and dry, free from drafts, and with room for exercise, and fed on a varied diet of fruits, vegetables, and cereals. Some of them like an occasional bit of meat, and a few are passionately fond of insects. There are so many different kinds of monkeys that if you saw a new one every day for a year there would still be more than a hundred you had not seen. Of course, no zoo has anything like a complete collection, as there are so many varieties and some of them cannot live in captivity. j Numbering half a thousand kinds, monkeys occur on all the continents except Australia, though in Europe they are found only in Gibraltar and in North America only in Mexico and southward. Generally monkeys are characteristic of warm countries, but sometimes, as in northern Japan and central Asia, certain kinds may be seen disporting themselves amid ng long-fang- ed This picture shows two rare T monkeys believed to be the only ones ever imported into this country. This particular species must be fed every two hours and they must be kept in a temperature of 85 degrees if they are removed from their native habitat in the Philippine islands. There have been cases of a monkey, bereft of its mate, pining away of grief. ar-si- us Two Main Groups. The many families of monkeys, leaving out the great apes (gorilla, chimpanzee, orangutan, and gibbon) on one end of the line, and the lemurs, or half monkeys, on the other, can be divided into two main groups: Those of the New world and those of the Old. The New world monkeys have a monopoly on prehensile tails, which they use as a fifth hand for assistance in climbing and swinging through trees and also for picking up objects. Their Old world relatives, in contrast, use their tails only for balance. The monkeys of the New world also differ in having nasal passages which are widely separated and pointed outward, and, with the exception of marmosets, they have four more teeth, two in each jaw. |