WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1930.
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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SOCIETY IN MONKEY depends on the distribution of these visitors to the Zoo, one or more of
WORLD.
qualities that go to make masculine the Inmates never seem to get any; dominance.
in fact, they are so much kept under
In the colony of Hamadryas that they do not even try to. Occa- baboons that live on Monkey Hill alonally you also And that the at the Zoo, there are only, six inhabitants of a cage are divided What May and May Not females, while, there are over thirty into dominant and dominated
Be Done.
BONDS AND HABITS.
cause they
up
way. It is
are
or
males. Yet only five males own groups. When the more powerful these females, one having two.group wishes to come to the bars of Another colony of similar baboons the cage, the others immediately kept in a zoo on the Continent con-make way.
Harem the Social Unk
or
is not strictly sees large-males
true. Aitting
What!
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You want to know what the special "Kick "__was_in those Cocktails to make them so topping? . . . I haven't any special recipes, old chap, bat I always me
BOLS
Celebrated Silver Top Dry Gin
H. RUTTONJEE & SON (Phone 20190):
are the Sole Distributors,
their harems.
The females of a harem are asual-
iy on very good terms with each
LEAVES 1 TO BROTHER.
sisted of twenty-five adults of each I have told you that one male sex and about a hundred young baboon at present living on Monkey The most primitive human beings ones. Five males possessed the Hill at the Zoo has two wives. This
an females, one having s twenty-five
obvious sign of his with whom civilised man has come
In the colony, but Into contact are those who have been seven. A third colony of which I power.
it would
true not be called the "food-gatherers, people now consisted of ten adult females yet like the Bushman of the Kalahari and eight adult males, apart from to describe his position as that Desert of South Africa, said Dr. the younug ones. Four of the males of leader. There have always been (9 Zuckerman in a talk on July 18. owned the ten females, one having males ready to defy him, in small Owing to the spread of Western four, another three, a third two, matters. Actually his power
Such irreguwaning, and it will not be surprising Civillaation-food-gathering peoples and the fourth one.
the distribution of the to find that he loses one or both of are disappearing rapidly, either larity, in through extermination be- females can depend only on varia-his females before long. At pre- throwing bility in those qualities which go to sent he is putting off the evil day What by avoiding clashes with his fellow their
of make masculine dominance. original waya
le doubtful. Size Is cer- males. He often turns his back and living. But they are still to be! they are found in many parts of the world. tainly not the only factor for often walks off with his harem when he Wherever they may be, in Ceylon, mated males are smaller than some has quite obviously been insulted. Individual unattached males
or There probably is no in the Malay Peninsula, in South of the Africa, they are alike in certain bachelors, One can infer from the lender to a troop of baboon met with im rtant respects. They live in behaviour of monkeys that there is in the wilds. But one can easily romadic family parties, carrying a definite scale of power in each see that the troop is dominated by few possessions, and subsisting on group, and that the individual mem- the large males, who, it is true, as though they realised often lead the way when the group whatever food they can find. On bers act some days they have plenty, on their places in the group. Once he is on the move. There is no neces others they starve, but they nevar, has failed, an interior male does not sity to assume, however, that any store food for a rainy day. As a continue to call disaster upon him- thing in the nature of commands or rule they are peaceful, and most of, self by trying to steal the food or giving of direction takes place.
It is often said, also, that them are
monogamous. We know, females of a more dominant male. these facts from direct observation He will not try until he is capable of sentries are posted by monkeys
foraging apes. when
fields. of people to whom we still refer as holding his own against all or most and
raiding cultivated of the males of his group. For when savages.
Before the discovery of agricul-monkeys' fight's seldom remain per-This ture and the beginning of civilisa-sonal ones. As soon as two begin to One tion, probably ali men lived in thia 3ght, others soon join in, and if on the skyline, looking round, and
the most primitive female is involved, the male who has often it is they who give warning outside picking in which the females MILLIONAIRE HOBO. human social level of which we precipitated the night must be barks when they see men approach: may indulge is with bachelors de know. We could, however, get a capable of defending himself against ing. But they are sentries only infinitely and permanently attached to little farther back in our social his- most of his fellow-males; otherwise, so far as they have given a warning tory by studying the social be- and as usually happens, his efforts cry. They are not posted there, nor Is it necessary, to think that they
other. It is only rarely that they baviour of apes and monkeys. There will have been in vain.
New York, July 24. are sitting there because of the pos-
aten bickering. In the
Dr. James Eads How, the probably was a stage in our evolu-
The harem is the social unit of sible chance of seeing men. Actual- are to be tion when we were like menkeys, not
attentions usually. No favourites "millionaire hobo" who died at And only in form, but also in intelligence monkeya, and apes, and we may rely any haboon may give the warning long run they share their overlord's
made, and
the Staunton, Virginia yesterday, has actually and in social behaviour. That is to cognise two main types of society afgnal, even the young ones.
many ways rather left the sum of £1 each to his say, we may learn from the apes arising from it. The first consists when one has driven a pack of are
to them. One finds brother and stepson. The remainder something about the social environ- of the single harem living alone. baboons out of some gorge in which male is in
of his fortune, estimated at nearly number of bananas ment from which emerged the social Most African tree-monkeys, the they have been feeding, without mean
one often that if life distinctive of the food-gathering gorilla, and the gibbons live in this showing, much offence,
benefit of the "workers of the way. The second is the society finds that it is the young ones who are thrown to a family party the £250,000, is left in trust for the
overlord snatches them all, or very peoples.
formed by the union of several hang back out of curiosity to see
nearly all, and the females sit meek- world." Propagation of Speeches.
ly by and do not protest. So far as is known, and with the harems. The best examples of this what is going to happen.
The Ethics of Picking..
Bachelors often make friend- exception of the primates, all type of society are baboon troops.
You may have noticed that all apes mammals in a state of nature have Baboons are seldom met with in
algo last 2 long breeding seasone. It is to the breed-small bands, and they may be seen and mankeys have the habit of pick-ships amongst themselves, and
ing over each other's fur in search
Often an adult monkey ing season that one must mainly in hordes of hundreds.
Neither type of society remains for loose scaly fragments of skin. time.
and protect will befriend kook in order to understand their
one.. Whenever social relations. The South Amer- always the same. Monkeys that Picking is rather an important per- Iran jaguar, for instance, lives a normally liye in single harems may formance, not only because it is the younger solitary life for all but four or five meet for longer or shorter intervals only toilet monkeys, perform, but young friend la bullied, he will at- weeks of the year. During these to form large troops. Such tempor because it constitutes an important tack the aggressor The readiness Eocial bond, though, In the absence with which monkeys help each
distress few weeks, which make up theary associations may be dua to
noticed. breeding season, it pairs, maintain-plentiful supply of food in aomet a companion, a monkey will pick ing a monogamous unien until the particular area, though it is usually over its own fur. Almost any mem- end of the season. It is the breed-stated by field-workers that each ber of a colony muy pick any othar, ing season that is responsible for the group of monkeys or apes has its but, of course, mutual picking will frequently between short social life of this animal, and own territory from which it does not occur more. in this it is like all mammals. For stray. On the other hand, a large animals who are closely associated of all the factors one may correlate troop of baboons often splits into The overlord of a harem will be pick- with the social activities of animals, smaller parties which scatter over ed by his females, he will pick them, that of breeding comes frat. Offence the area patrolled by the troop. and they will pick each other. But and defence are quite secondary in You seldom see all the members of a while he may also be picked by, any baboon troop digging for roots in bachelor with whom he may strike comparison.
The first thing to note about the the same spot. One member of a up a temporary friendship, the only Primates-the monkeys and apes-is troop may be as much as a mile from that, so far as is known, they do not his fellows. This distance is rela- have breding seasons, Young are tively shorter for baboon than It is born at all times of the year. This for us, as he can run faster and far- is reflected in their behaviour, for, ther than we can, and in case of unlike the lower mammal, male and danger he can very quickly join his female monkeys always keep to tellows. Sometimes, too, baboon gether. At no time of the year can troops scatter when, pursued,
and for
while a long n female monkey or ape be found
members call- hear lost. can wandering by itself. Moreover, as the sexes are permannestly together, ing to their fellow At night there is no need for special meet all the members of the same troop ing mechanism. There is no sea of baboons do not recessarily sleep sonai variation in the voice of any in the same outcrop of rocks. Some monkey or ape, nor do they have of the animals may be quite a dis- mell glands. The permanent asso-tance from the rest. All this goes clation of the sexes in monkeys and to show that a troop of monkeys docs apes is, in fact, the most Important pot behave like a flock of sheep, but point to recognise about their social that the units that compose It enjoy tfe. Without it the family of the certain amount of independent food-gather could not have develop-movement.
ed.
one
Who Would be a Bachelor?..
In monkeys, as in man, the sexCE The form this permanent' sexual association takes varies from one are about equal in number, and 1: monkey species. to another; and therefore follows that because of may say, that about 450 different polygamy a number of males remain unmated. These males, or "bache kinds of monkey and ape are recog-lors as they may be called, are found nised. But the variation is within every monkey or ape species narrow limits, and it is not difficult. The bachelors of those species in to see that the social relationships which the social group is the single of all apes and monkeys are built on
contact with the harems, which then the same plan. The basis of their rem are usually excluded from all social life. Is the harem, that is, a social unit consisting of one mala consist of only one adult male, one For more females, and young ones.
and one or more females. There can Such bachelors ofther roam alone, be little doubt that the tendency of in the way many gorillas do, or, like sub-human male primates is towards polygamy. Every adult male tries the Indian entellus monkey, they to get for himself as many females may form male bands. Occasionally, Le possible. The most dominant where the dominance of, a' harem's males secure the largest number of overlord le-assured, one or more adult males may be admitted into wives, and keep them until they are the harein, but in such cases the taken from them by force. The females play an altogether passive females continue to be the wives of
the overlord only, we Fart, and have, no say in the matter Almost everything In the social of their disposal. 7.
behaviour of apes and monkeya Monogamous Monks.
saerds to hinge on the question of Occasionally, one comes across a domination. Any newcomer to a report that this or that species of monkey cage at the Zoo monkey is monogamous. But such diately shown its place by the older reports usg copflets with others; inhabitants, and his having been A new communal kitchen for the that state the opposite It is easy decided, euch member settles down daily production and distribution of to see how th Happene for one and acts with what appears to be 80,000 luncheons has just been open naturalist may hays seen only a subtle understanding of the extent rad, while another, even pair of some particular monkey, of its power. At feeding time, the completed before the while another may have come verdas, more dominant Inhabitants eat first, male, and offen it becomes ascessary for special arrangements to be made for mbre, dosifnated animals, other- ould sta You must other
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