Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Animal Behaviour, Animal Development, Education, Psychology, Amusement, Accidents

    Considers the advantages of having 'Ourang-outangs and Gorillas and the monkey-tribe' being so civilised that they could be turned into acrobats, a move prompted by a recent accident suffered by a female acrobat. Later argues that 'Monkeys are by nature better fit' for acrobatics, since 'they have more muscle than men, and having fewer brains, have not such fear of falling'. The measure would therefore reduce the number of accidents among human acrobats.