Brehm shows¹ that Baboons have greatest fear of innocent Lizards, Frogs, & Lurchen^t1 (?) as well as of snakes — One w^d 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› resist satiating their horror by opening the boxes in which «Brehms?.—» snakes were kept. —
Similarity to man.

^t1 Lurchen] German for: 'Amphibians'

1. Alfred Edmund Brehm, 1829-84. DCP .  Brehm 1864-67.

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