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In describing the animals of Sierra Leone, p. 51, this writer says: "I shall next describe a strange sort of animal, called by the white men in this country Mandrill,* but why it is so called I know not, nor did I ever hear the name before, neither can those who call them so tell, except it be for their near resemblance of a human creature, though nothing at all like an Ape.
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.
Mandans, correlation of colour and texture of hair in the. Mandible, left, enlarged in the male of Taphroderes distortus. Mandibles, use of the, in Ammophila; large, of Corydalis cornutus; large, of male Lucanus elaphus. Mandrill, number of caudal vertebrae in the; colours of the male.
The young Rhesus, as I saw, was greatly discontented at being thus rejected, and it would, like a naughty child, annoy and attack the young drill and mandrill whenever it could do so with safety; this conduct exciting great indignation in the old baboon.
When the mandrill of a lathe, having a metal plate fixed to it, turns round with a uniform motion, and the slide rest which carries the cutter is moving from the circumference of the work to the centre, it will be obvious that the quantity of metal passing over the edge of the cutter at each revolution, and therefore at equal intervals of time, is continually diminishing, in exact proportion to the spiral line described by the cutter on the face of the work.
We know that the faces of several species of monkeys, and large surfaces at the posterior end of the body of other species, have been denuded of hair; and this we may safely attribute to sexual selection, for these surfaces are not only vividly coloured, but sometimes, as with the male mandrill and female rhesus, much more vividly in the one sex than in the other, especially during the breeding-season.
The young mandrill ceased spontaneously after a time to act in this manner towards his master, von Fischer, but continued to do so towards persons who were strangers and to new monkeys. A young Cynopithecus niger never acted, excepting on one occasion, in this way towards his master, but frequently towards strangers, and continues to do so up to the present time.
'No, they jolly well aren't. He drew her a little aside. 'A blue-faced mandrill, silly, is real; it's in my natural history book. 'Sorry, said Dilly apologetically. 'In my natural history book it is, a real thing. I'm a blue-faced mandrill.... Now say it after me. 'You's a two-faced mangle. 'Now you're doing it on purpose! If you weren't a little girl, Dilly 'I wasn't doing it on purpose.
In this article there is an account of the behaviour of a young male mandrill when he first beheld himself in a looking-glass, and it is added, that after a time he turned round and presented his red hinder end to the glass.
We may infer from what we see of the variation of animals under domestication, that the above several ornaments of the mandrill were gradually acquired by one individual varying a little in one way, and another individual in another way.
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