PUTTY-NOSED MONKEY

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6815, 21 January 1929, Page 4

PUTTY-NOSED MONKEY

TAIL A YARD LONG

The London Zoo is delighted with its latest arrival from the Gold Coast —a putty-nosed monkey with a complete tail.

The special joy is in the tail, which is a full yard long. These monkeys have weak circulations in their tails, for the blood has to be pumped so far by the heart. A touch of cold weather and the tail wilts like a dahlia In a frost. After stormy blasts in - the Bay of Biscay the average .length of the decoration when the creature reaches England is from six . .inches, to a foot. Even if the tail is still all there, it has been blighted and" fades away in the Zoo.

Many puty-nosed monkeys eat their cold-storaged tails. Thef are quite given to this habit until the zoo uses a certain red ointment, which spoils the flavour.

The new putty-nose was brought to England in wonderful condition by the donor, a Mr. Woodward, who is a laboratory expert at the Medical Research Institute at Sekondi, where the yellow fever scourge is tackled. He also presented the zoo with a number of other very interesting creatures, including a very tame royal python, who will feed from your hand and is credited with Hie power of fielding a dead rat if you throw-it to him.