Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1892 — Shrewd Monkey Generalship. [ARTICLE]

Shrewd Monkey Generalship.

In real military organization and strategy monkeys are far altead of all other animals, and notably tho different kinds of baboon. Mansfield Park ns gives an excellent account of the tactics of tho dog-faci d Hamadryads that lived in large colonies in tho cracks in the cliiTs of the Abyssiivan Mountains Theso creatures used occasionally to plan a foraging expedition Into the plain below, and the order of attack was most carefully organized, tho old males marching in front and on tho flanks, with a few to bring up tho rear and keep tho rest in order, 'limy had a code of signals, halting or advancing according to tho barks < f tho scouts. When they readied the corn fields tho main body plundered, whilo tho old males watched on all sides but took nothing for thomsolves. Tho others stowed tho < orn in their cheek pouches and under their armpits. They are also said to dig wells with their hands and work in relays. Tho Gelada baboons sometimes have battles with tho Hama dryads, especially when tho two species have a mind to rob the same field, and, if fighting in the hills, will roll stones on their enemies. Not long ago a colony of Go ada baboons, which had been fired at by some soldiers attending a Duke of Coburg-Gotlia on a h inting expedition on the borders of Abyssinia, blocked a pass for some days by rolling rocks on all comers.