Trafika Europe 6 - Arabesque

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unknown. In the previous century the population dwindled to three individuals, a situation subsequently remedied by English officers who had several specimens brought over from Africa, and now they again live in flocks, though ut ter l y feral , perpetually seeking the lee side of this gigantic cliff. In color the monkeys are yellowish gray with a flesh- toned face, they entirely lack tails, but like their conspecifics in Japan and Tibet they do have seat cushions. Extinct specimens have been found, for example, in France and Italy, and even more recently a partial jawbone found in Essex proves that the macaques managed to survive in England. The focus of the ears’ symbiosis with this remarkable, though little remarked upon creature, however, is a small theater

the second the poor graying soldiers began their giggling description of the ears’ scandalous sexual practices every single Englishman immediately lifted his pen. This much is known, however, that it is especially on the promontory’s wild, desolate eastern slope that the ears subsist. It is from there that theearsundertakeexpeditions to renew their mimes. On these steep slopes, furrowed by rugged ravines, the ears live in symbiotic relationship with Europe’s only species of primate, Macacus inuus, with whom they not only share a unique status, but also the rich growth of dwarf palms which develop particularly will here thanks to the limestone in the sparse topsoil. Whether or not the macaques, which are actually indigenous to north Africa, were wild or imported is

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