Animal Warfare.

Manawatu Herald, 29 October 1896, Page 2

Animal Warfare.

So.ne interesting details of the discipline of monkeys When on the warpath are given in the translation just published in England of Herr Brehm'a " From North Pole to Equator." A fight between the Baboons, who are not afraid to attack wild dogfl, and even leopards, and domesticated dogs, is described by the author. The baboons were on flit ground, crossing a valley, when the traveller's dogs, Arab greyhounds, accustomed to fight successfully with hyenas and other beasts of prey, rushed towards the baboon?. " Only the females took to flight. The males, on the contrary, turned to face the dogs, growled, beat the ground with their hand*, opened their mou b.-j wiJp, and showed their glittering t«eth, and looked at their adversaries po furiously and mali-^^ ciously that the hounds, 'usually bohr^ and battle hardened, shrank back." By the time the dogs were encouraged to renew their attack the whole herd had made their way, covered by the rearguard, to the rocks, except a six mouths old monkey-, which wap l'fc behind. The little monkey sat on a low rock surrounded by the do o'-•,0 ' -•, b'i»; wis rescued by an old baboon, who stepped down from the cliff near, advanced towards the doga, picked up the baby' monkey, ami carried it to tha cliff, whsre the (K-nse crowd of monkeys, 6houting their batile-ory, wore watching his he;oi-m.