The chameck (spider monkey) is a weak and harmless creature that depends only upon its swiftness for its safety. His assailant, on the other hand, is a powerful marauder, with strong claws, a powerful beak, and very swift in flight. The chameck uses his tail also as an organ of feeling. If his favorite food is placed behind the animal, it finds it by feeling with its tail ; he also draws eggs and young birds out of the hollows of trees with the same limb. It is not true, however, that these animals are in the habit of forming a living bridge by swinging from a tree on the banks of a river to another on the opposite side.
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