The sun., 1919-07-13
THE AUSTRALIAN MONITOR or GIANT
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cred to watch him. At such times II
is nothing unusual to see him waltzing
about and giving a good imitation OF
tho shimmy. and he will follow that
with remarkable gymnastic efforts on
his trapeze. After that he usually
goes into a corner and stands on his
head, and if all this does not draw
prune or some other tidbit he thinks
his time has been wasted and he re-
tires into his box in infinite disgust
at the stinginess of humans.
The speciality of the pigtailed mon
| key is making faces. For a prune he
will make a nice face and for two
prunes he will even condescend to kiss
the giver OF the prunes. But II some
one in the audience yells at him. or
laughs the monkey, an ugly brute at
best. will wrinkle his nose and stick
out his tongue and make as terrible a
! face as he knows how.
Mike and Teddy, the orang -outang
have n cage all by themselves. and
Mike, who is a big chimpanzee and
got his name because he resembles
rather remarkably the old time car
! toonists idea OF the Irish hodcarrier,
! is boss of the cage. Mike Is very In
tclligent. He never fails to kiss Spicer
when the keeper comes around with a
few prunes in his pockets. his idea
being that when the keeper comes
close enough to get the kiss he can go
through the mans coat pockets and
extract some prunes. He is affection
ate toward the keepers and gives no
trouble, but let anybody show Teddy
any attention and Mike becomes flu
rious.
The other day Keeper Spicer Of
fored Teddy prune, and Mike uttered
shrill shrek and slapped Teddy in
the face. Then he pushed the biz
} orang- outanS down into the straw and
mauled him about so tiercely that
Teddy finally gave 1t UP and retired
whimpering into the cage. Then Mike
came over to get the prune and hay
ing eaten 1t he crowded close TO tho
side of the cage TO have his rib:
tickled. There is nothing that Mike
likes better than 10 be tickled. He IL
t!cklish too, and when his ribs ar,
rubbed he squirms around and thor
oughly enjoys himself and comes al
near laughing as an animal can.
An Educated Chimpansee.
, Probably the most educated ANNA
; in all the Zoo is the big chimpanze'
! Susette, which has been in many cir
. cuses and sideshows and has been seel
; by thousands at so much look
= Susette can ride a bicycle, eat a mea
with knife and fork, and can con
duct herself like a perfect lady whei
she wants to. And she can also con
duct herself like a hussy when sh
wants TO. She seems TO take an in
, slant dislike 10 some people. and wo
{ to them II they come within reach o
h her or even within splitting distance
r The other day n man wearing a shin,
9 silk topper came into the Zoo, accom-
= panied by two boys. and asked keepe
h Spicer to have Susette do some trick,
!. To emphasize what he wanted III
a man poked Susette in the ribs with hi
A cane. which Is against the rules Of tn
, Zoo and thing which Susette doesn'
: particularly care for anyway, So sh
n made a face. which the man though
o was funny, SO he poked her again. -
d Give him the raz Susette!" erie
: the keeper. .
h And susette Immediately spat on tn
= mans shiny topper, Giving people tn
s raZ means much the same, TO Susett
2 as 1t does TO the doughboY. Briefly
n means Go get EN-" and Susette get
e them.
? In the first cage on the right OF tn
4 main hall Of the prImate house is
e gang OF monkeys that Keeper Spice
calls the Gopher Gang-elEht or ten q
v the meanest little simians that eve
I came out of a jungle. They are al
n ways fighting with each other and
: they were humans they would h
: called hard boiled eggs" and would b
o known to the police. But they ar
{ useful. besides being good specimen;
a When one Of the other monkeys get
d mean or cranky Spicer puts him il
= with the Gopherg for day or two an
X they soon take all the meanness on
n OF him. After he has been chase
: over the roof OF the cage and up an
r down It's walls for "a fow days and ha
;. been scratched and pummelled an
O mauled about he comes out chastens
n and subdued. Cranky monkeys tina
have undergone course OF training a