BABOON'S LOVE AFFAIRS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18345, 10 March 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)

BABOON'S LOVE AFFAIRS.

— ♦ <: 181 m§l! LOSES MERRY WIDOW." \f* Bobby, an anubis baboon, recently P&'%jsm sented to the Zoo, has had a run of bad " • luck in his love affairs, says a London ;*j paper. :i|» And. to make matters worse, he has * -.i frost-bitten tail and an irritating neighbour. l Things were so different when he arrived, for he then had as companion i" V-J&. his cage Queenie, a black ape, w£o was ':);; as light-hearted as she was dark-coated. Those blissful days soon ended, for when she was beginning fc understand >,-,V Bobby's queer ways, Queenie died. : 'f§ With the death of Cuthbert, a Gambia ; ,r : :|| baboon, in the next cage, Bobby began to pay his attentions to " Mrs. Oath-' •: :J| bert," as the widow has been nick- ' named, and was on quite good terras ' -'v with her, despite the intervening wires, ; when "Mrs. Outhbert" was whisked :.: away by an unromantic keeper, and ; •.; housed with a hated rival, in full view ■ of Bobby's own cage. J,^ So obsessed was The with his loss that : 'i| he forgot to tuck away his tail on retiring r*;! to rest one cold night— the frostbite. ' _ _ •' :■'s£ ■ Bobby awoke to find an unfamiliar face . gazing down at him from the cage m Y/£ which he had taken so much interest. ;(;£ It was George the Drill, who, though young, has such a forbidding countenance that Bobby endeavoured to remove J V ;;;; with the fur was flying around for some time. ~,3?a