Arizona republican., 1906-03-17
ANIMALS LIKE A JOKE.
They Pull Tails. Make Up Faces, and
 Play Mischievous Tricks.

Animals with sense Of humor, or signs of one anyway, are described by
 a writer in the Strand. He tells of a female baboOn that delighted in teas | ing a certain watch dog.
 As soon as the dog settled himself l for a doze the babOon would steal up and give the canine tail a vicious tug. Of course the dog would go for hec,
 but he would simply wait till he got close enough, then leap over his head and from behind give his tail another pull
 A Siamese monkey was being l brought to Europe on a steamer with several other monkeys. who. for some reason, would have nothing to do with him.
 This ostracism eXasperated the Sia mese and whenever he got a chance he would grab one of the others by the tail. drag him all over the deck and finally climb into the rigging and drop his victim with dull thud.
 Darwin tells of a female orang- outang that took hold of a dish in which her food was served and put it on her head as if it was hat Thus adorned she provoked roars of laugh ter, to her evident qualification, from the crowd around her cage.
 Another naturalist saw a baboon get even with an officer who had often leased him. Seeing the officer ap- preaching the baboon poured some wa ter into hole in the ground. mix ing it with earth so as to make mud When his enemy came up he splashed the muddy water on the officers uni form. For a long time after this ev- cry time the animal saw the officer he indulged in what had every appear ance of being laughter.
 Saville Kent declares that dOlphins are fond of teasing other fish by seiz- ing their tails and dragging them through the water. He once saw two dolphins attack a big skate swimming near the surface Of the water. The skate tried to escape them by raising its tail out of the water, but the dol phins got hold of it and dragged the skate in every direction.
 Foals will often tease human beings by galIoping toward them as if intend ing to run them down, then stopping short within an uncomfortably short step or two.
 Gross. the naturalist, relates several amusing instances of a similar nature about dogs. He had once a dog wno. when given piece of bread that he did not care to eat dropped it. and then, lying upon it. pretended to look round With the most innocent air, as if wondering where it had fallen.
 Another case he speaks of Is that of a terrier whose greatest pleasure it was to catch flies on the window pane. Nothing annoyed the animal more than to be laughed at when he missed his prey.
 Tn order to discover what he would do,' says Cross "I purposely laughed immoderately each time he was unsuc- cessful, and the more I laughed the clumsier he grew"
 At last he was so unmistakably an nOyed that in his dispair he pretended to capture a fly and mode the appro- priate movement of tongue and lips, I finally rubbing his neck on the ground as if to crush his victim, after which he regarded me with a triumphant air.
 50 well had he played his little comedy that had I not seen the very fly still on the window, I certainly would have been taken in by his trick. When I called his attention to the fact that the fly he had chased was still at large and that there was no dead fly on the floor he perfectly understood that his hypocrisy had been discovered and was so ashamed that he slunk away and hid under a couch