Monkey's+and+Monkey-Shines

=Frank Leslie's Christmas Book= = Monkeys and Monkey-Shines. . . . .78 =

** This is a natural history account of the lives and behaviors of monkeys, baboons, and lemurs. This story includes their behaviors with each other, their mental capacity, their ability to band together in order to survive, and their eating habits. The images almost surround the text, taking up much of the page. This would aid any child who would be reading with their mothers. As the text is being read, the child could process the words, and apply it to the picture in front of them. This specific image displays chimpanzees, also known as a type of gibbon, within a forest of bamboo. The only issue is, nowhere in the text does it mention bamboo, only that these animals band together in order to protect themselves from dangers and their playful agility as they "swing themselves from branch to branch and from bar to bar". Therefore, the artist took a more liberal approach in creating this image, introducing a type of vegetation that may or may not be accurate to the habitat that chimpanzees live in. ** HOME