Monkeys Have No Fleas
It ia curious that ruonkeys should be thought to be iufected with what uaturalists cali the pules irritans and what ordinary people kuow as the flea. As every zoologist is aware, ruonkeys have ueither fleaa uor any other parasite whatsoever ; in which, of conrse, they ditt'er vastly from man. As a matter of fact, when monkeys begin to piek each other a bout in the friendly way we have all observed, they merely detach bits of hardened sebaceous matter which has been escreted by tho plauds, aud the flea idea is eutirely
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