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The Geladas roll down great stones, which the Hamadryas try to avoid, and then both species, making a great uproar, rush furiously against each other. Brehm, when accompanying the Duke of Coburg-Gotha, aided in an attack with fire-arms on a troop of baboons in the pass of Mensa in Abyssinia.
He is also greedy of tortoises, and uses the same method to break their carapaces, eating the soft parts. These facts have been many times observed by Brehm and other trustworthy naturalists. It is even said that in Greece every Lammergeyer chooses a rock on which he always comes to execute the tortoises he has captured.
After performing these antics the males begin to fight: and the same black-cock, in order to prove his strength over several antagonists, will visit in the course of one morning several Balz-places, which remain the same during successive years. Brehm, 'Thierleben, 1867, B. iv. s. 351.
The other extremely sociable bird, the parrot, stands, as known, at the very top of the whole feathered world for the development of its intelligence. Brehm has so admirably summed up the manners of life of the parrot, that I cannot do better than translate the following sentence: "Except in the pairing season, they live in very numerous societies or bands.
He was bound many miles westward, right out to the sea-coast, to unearth a sow's ear which he had buried in the good times. It was now late autumn, and food was scarce. When you see one raven, says Father Brehm, you need only look round to discover a second. But you might have looked long enough where this wise old raven came flying; he was, and remained, alone.
If the beak is not thus struck against some object, the sound is quite different. Air is at the same time swallowed, and the oesophagus thus becomes much swollen; and this probably acts as a resonator, not only with the hoopoe, but with pigeons and other birds. For the foregoing facts see, on Birds of Paradise, Brehm, 'Thierleben, Band iii. s. 325. On Grouse, Richardson, 'Fauna Bor.
Such monographs as the chapter on "Music and Dancing in Nature" which we have in Hudson's Naturalist on the La Plata, and Carl Gross' Play of Animals, have already thrown a considerable light upon an instinct which is absolutely universal in Nature. For the choruses of monkeys, see Brehm. Haygarth, Bush Life in Australia, p. 58. Mr.
Brehm gives a curious account of the instinctive dread, which his monkeys exhibited, for snakes; but their curiosity was so great that they could not desist from occasionally satiating their horror in a most human fashion by lifting up the lid of the box in which the snakes were kept.
Monkeys will also, according to Brehm, defend their master when attacked by any one, as well as dogs to whom they are attached, from the attacks of other dogs. But we here trench on the subjects of sympathy and fidelity to which I shall recur. Some of Brehm's monkeys took much delight in teasing a certain old dog whom they disliked, as well as other animals, in various ingenious ways.
On the Argus pheasant, Jardine's 'Nat. Hist. Lib.: Birds, vol. xiv. p. 167. On Birds of Paradise, Lesson, quoted by Brehm, 'Thierleben, B. iii. s. 325. On the widow-bird, Barrow's 'Travels in Africa, vol. i. p. 243, and 'Ibis, vol. iii. 1861 p. 133. Mr.
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