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in different ages and countries. The Greeks,
arbiters of beauty if there ever were any,
painted the hair of their Aphrodite blue, how do
you like blue hair? Amongst the monkeys
themselves this rich carnation is evidently a
sign of beauty, irresistible to the ladies’ eye, and
the happy possessor of such a glow of colours
a posteriori is often seen with uplifted tail turning
his back upon the spectators in order to be
admired. The monkeys are excellent mothers,
but you must never attempt to have anything
to do with their children, for like the Arab women
folk and even Neapolitan women, they believe
that you have got the evil eye. The stronger
sex is somewhat inclined to flirtation and terrible
“drames passionels” are constantly enacted in
the big monkey-house at the Zoo, where even the
tiniest little ouistiti becomes an infuriated Othello,
ready to fight the biggest baboon. The ladies
watch the tournament with sympathetic
side-glances at their various champions and with
furious quarrels amongst themselves. Imprisoned
monkeys, as long as they are in company, live on
the whole a supportable life. They are so busy
in finding out all that is going on inside and
outside their cage, so full of intrigue and gossip that
they have hardly time to be unhappy. The life
of an imprisoned big ape, gorilla, chimpanzee, or
orang-outang, is of course the life of a martyr,
pure and simple. They all fall into profound
hypochondria if tuberculosis is too slow to kill
them. Consumption is, as everybody knows, the
cause of the death of most imprisoned monkeys,
big and small. The symptoms, evolution and
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