RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. 1870.06.29. Expression / Sutton has often observed that when the Rhesus monkey. CUL-DAR189.45. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2023. RN1
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June 29 1870 Expression
Sutton has often observed that when the Rhesus monkey Rengger has been enraged with him its face has become very red, & that when has [illeg] struck at him or frightened by him he has grown pale.
Luckily as he was telling me another monkey attacked a Rhesus & I saw its face grow as read as that of a man in the greatest rage; in a few minutes after the battle its
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face recovered its natural tint.
I believe but do not state positively that the naked scarlet skin at the post. end of the body likewise became much more vivid
[Expression, p. 139.]
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