RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Baboons' fears. CUL-DAR80.B127. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2021. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).
[B127]
Brehm shows that Baboons have greatest fear of insect Lizards, Frogs, & Lurchen(?) as well as of snakes - One wd think when one knows that orangs have greatest dread of Turtles & Tortoises that they perceived the affinity of these lowest vertebrate classes. Very human, that the Baboon could not resist satiating their horror by opening the boxes in which Brehms? snakes were kept.
Similarity to man.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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