DO MONKEYS SWIM.
, Alsaw'in ybiir paper lately an inquiry, '••Do monkeys swim ?'' I was always trader the impression that they did not ]ikei*wettiog their fur or hair, but at Saugar, Central India, when I was stationed there, I bad a little monkey that til exceedingly fond of swimming and diving. One day, on taking him to the pond at the bottom of my compound, he jumped off my shoulder and dived (like: a matt) into the water, which was three or four leet deep; he had his chain on.^at-.- th^ time, and when he oss* in the chain caught in . sonje grass or root at the bottom and kept the monkey down; be was just able to come to the top of the water. Feeling his chain, had. caught he dived down, undid the' chain/ and continued his swim with ob chain in his hand. He swam just like a man as far as I could see from the motion of his arms. Several of my brother officers came to see him swim* ■ing, of < which he was very , fond, swimming'very quietly, and cunningly trying to catch the frogs that lay floating ou the top of the water.—" C.T.C." in ,£and and Water.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3321, 14 August 1879, Page 2
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203DO MONKEYS SWIM. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3321, 14 August 1879, Page 2
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