PUTTY-NOSED MONKEY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 558, 10 January 1929, Page 11

PUTTY-NOSED MONKEY

tail a yard long Ae London Zoo ia delighted with latest arrival from the Gold Coast ~7 4 Putty-nosed monkey with a comPlete tail. . The special joy is in the tail, which 15 a full yard long. These monkeys have weak circula■ons in their tails, for the blood has ““® Pumped so far by the heart. A ouch of cold weather and the tail uts Hk e a dahlia in a frost, ■her stormy blasts in the Bay of de SC4y tlle av erage length of the E c ® r *tl°n when the creature reaches f - lan< l is from six inches to a it s Even if the tail is still all there, ; has been blighted and fades away la the Zoo. puiy-nosed monkeys eat their Jku-atoraged tails. They are quite “'* a 19 habit until the zoo uses red ointment, which spoils flavour n * w Putty-nose was brought to th«a ** * n wonderful condition by 1 . I *°hor. a Mr. Woodward, who is a sea k t ° ry expert at the Medical Reviin“ Institute at Sekondi, where the H° W * eTer scourge is tackled. *l*° presented the zoo with a iur “* r ot other very interesting creanvik1 ’ * nc ' u dlng a very tame royal ans! ‘ who W HI feed from your hand inr ** ® re< lited with the power of fields a dead rat :tf you throw it to him.