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My Chacma baboon defies an adversary by contracting her eyebrows and slapping the floor with her hands. The vocabulary of a talking bird is no doubt more extensive, but it is used entirely at random.
On my last visit to New York I bought a female Chacma baboon that had attracted my attention by the grotesque demonstrativeness of her motions, and took her on board of a Norfolk steamer, where she at once became an object of general enthusiasm. The next morning Sally was taking her breakfast on deck, when she suddenly dropped her apple-pie and jumped upon the railing.
Many odd stories are told of the chacma baboon among the settlers of Southern Africa, such as their robbing the traveller of his food, and then going off to some distance, and mocking him, while they devour it. The natives also say that they sometimes use a stick in walking, "crowing" for roots, and in self-defence.
They had long tails, which some of them carried high in the air, and flourished about in a very eccentric manner. Totty was by no means alarmed. She knew what sort of animals they were. She knew they were baboons. Who does not feel disgust when regarding the hideous mandrill the drill the hamadryas or even the chacma? And all these are baboons.
Cygnus immutabilis. Cygnus olor, white young of. Cyllo Leda, instability of the ocellated spots of. Cynanthus, variation in the genus. Cynipidae, proportion of the sexes in. Cynocephalus, difference of the young from the adult; male, recognition of women by; polygamous habits of species of. Cynocephalus babouin. Cynocephalus chacma. Cynocephalus gelada.
There were some bushes at a little distance, to which the lads made their way, in order to get near the creatures without being seen. "Why, I believe they are baboons!" cried Denis; "the Kaffirs call the creature the chacma. They are hunting for babiana root, which is always full of water.
The baboons are peculiar to Africa, and there are six well-known species of them: the common baboon of North Africa, the "papion" of the south and western coast, the "hamadryas or tartarin" of Abyssinia, the "mandrill" and "drill" of Guinea, and the "chacma" of the Cape Colony. The habits of these animals are as disgusting as their appearance.
Many odd stories are told of the chacma baboon among the settlers of Southern Africa, such as their robbing the traveller of his food, and then going off to some distance, and mocking him, while they devour it. The natives also say that they sometimes use a stick in walking, "crowing" for roots, and in self-defence.
These are more of a quadruped form than any yet mentioned; and, both in a moral and physical sense, they are certainly the ugliest of animals. The hideous Drills and Mandrills, so well-known in our menageries, belong to this genus; as also the Chacma, or great dog-monkey of the Cape. There are, in all, seven or eight species of baboons, and most of them inhabit Africa.
They had long tails, which some of them carried high in the air, and flourished about in a very eccentric manner. Totty was by no means alarmed. She knew what sort of animals they were. She knew they were baboons. Who does not feel disgust when regarding the hideous mandrill the drill the hamadryas or even the chacma? And all these are baboons.
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