MONKEY COMMITS SUICIDE.
FIRST KNOWN CASE. Sightseers at Upton Zoo, Chester, England, recently witnessed what appeared to be the deliberate suicide of a monkey. Mr. Mottrshead, keeper of the Zoo, describing the occurrence, said: "In a lifetime of experience, I have never known a'n animal deliberately to commit suicide. The monkey first amused the visitors by gnawing off six feet of rope hanging in his open-air cage. He" carried-the rope to a tree in the cage, and tied one end of the rope to a bough. The other end the monkey made into a noose, into which he inserted his head with great deliberation. He pulled tight the slip-knot, climbed as high as the rope would allow and launched himselff off the tree. Death was instantaneous."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3449, 24 November 1932, Page 7
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126MONKEY COMMITS SUICIDE. King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3449, 24 November 1932, Page 7
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