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English: Title: Beasts and men, being Carl Hagenbeck's experiences for half a century among wild animals;

Identifier: beastsmenbeingca00hage Year: 1912 (1910s) Authors: Hagenbeck, Carl, 1844-1913 Subjects: Animal training; Menageries; Zoological specimens; Zoos Publisher: London, New York [etc. ] : Longmans, Green, and Co. Contributing Library: Boston Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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Text Appearing Before Image: ANTHROPOID APES 279 appears to be taking no notice of anything, but when a visitor reaches forward to shake hands with the orang, he dashes with lightning speed at his hat, and seizing it with a dexterous grasp whisks it off to the gymnastic bar. The sequel to these performances was not so pleasant, for me at least, as the per- formances themselves. I got tired after a time of having to pay for new hats every day, and I was reduced to the neces- sity of putting up a barrier between the apes and the public.

Text Appearing After Image: Somali child with orang-outang. Even that, however, I found insufficient. The public were in the habit of giving the creatures food, which was very un- wholesome, and on two occasions brouo^ht them in dangler of their lives. To prevent this I finally had a glass wall set up to shut them off completely from visitors. Moritz very easily becomes bored when the keeper goes away ; and in order to relieve his feelings is much addicted to practical jokes. He is very fond of singling out the orang Jacob as a butt for his humour. When the latter is off his

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