Edgar Rice Burroughs. Adopted monkey (№ 432407)

His strange life did not make him sullen or bloodthirsty. The fact that he killed with a joyful laugh did not at all prove his innate cruelty. Most often, he killed in order to get food. True, being a man, he sometimes killed for his own pleasure, which no other animal does. After all, of all creatures in the world, only man is given to kill senselessly, with pleasure, only for the sake of pleasure to cause suffering and death.