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World of Nature

..come September... A sacred

savage

NE of the largest and balkiest of the monkeys

is the Hamadryas Baboon, which was the sacred baboon of the ancient Egyptians.

These impressive looking beasts have large mantles or manes, and their dog-like faces are armed with enormous fangs as formidable as any leopard's.

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Credit Card to Antoinette Rozario

QUIZ ANSWERS

Here are the answers to last week's Quiz. No one got them right.

They live in large colonies that are severely administered by tyrannical old males, mis- demeancurs of the females and young being punished with cuffs and bites.

The colonies are situated on broken rocky hillsides and are protected by a system of look- outs placed at strategic points, This affords them defence against leopards, which the fierce males can repel.

The Hamadryas Baboon bas been seen to carry on a form of organised warfare with the equally savage Gelanda Baboon, both sides manoeuvring and even taking prisoners in much the same way as humans.

The ancient Egyptians seem to have had considerable success in taming these intractable beasts. Bas-reliefs show the baboons

1. Both words mean sleight-of-hand as practised by a busily collecting figs and dates juggler or conjurer. 2. 'In September 1988 — at Clydebank. for their owners. So revered 3. The Bible of the Mohammedans. 4. (a). Political and were these animals that on dy- Economic

the corpse Planning; (b) Pay As You Earn;

was carefully. (c)ing, Pennsylvania. 5. Mozart (1756-91). 6. (a) pearl; (b) little; mummified and preserved in

a special tomb. (e) rock. 7. Queen Anne. The Racecourse was laid out on' her instructions in 1711.

BARRY DRISCOLL

26. The 1891 issue [4]

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HERE are numerous varieties of all three Chinose

surcharged values of which some are catalogued at quite high prices.

The scarcity of some of the varieties listed below is indicated by the current catalogued values quoted by Gibbons:

SG 45. 20c. on 30c.

-double surcharge (£17)`:

double surcharge, one inverted (£16) surcharge at each side

-pair, one with and one without surcharge (E14)'

surcharge in large characters

-surcharge each side with 50c. surcharge at left

(£26).

SG 46. 50c. on 48c.

-double surcharge (£16)

inverted surcharge (£20)

dorple surcharge, one inverted (£16)

—surcharge at each side (£20).

-pair, one with and one without surcharge (£10))

surcharge in large characters

SG 47. $1 on 95c.

-double surcharge

-surcharge at each side (£17)

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Credit Card to Jean Wong.

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