RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1868.03.16. Baboons. CUL-DAR80.B85. 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
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Sutton, Seth, 1828-1902. Keeper at zoological gardens. 1867 Corresponded with CD about expression in apes. 1870 Jan. 5 CD to Abraham Dee Bartlett, S was a keeper at the Zoological Society of London's Gardens, Regent's Park, who made many observations on monkeys for Expression. CCD18. (Paul van Helvert & John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021)
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Z. Gardens March 16/68/ Sutton told me that a Baboon (Chacma) always fondled a rhesus, until the other day a young drill & mandrill were turned in & then it took to them (affinity for not much or any younger) & rhesus was very discontented & like bad boy whenever it had the chance would annoy & attack in all ways the young drill & mandrill which were protected by the old Baboon, who wd [claim] the Rhesus after these attacks.
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