In the morning both males and females commonly occupy the lower branches.

They lie there isolated, motionless, indifferent to passing events.

They do not avoid the hand about to seize them.

Most of them are hanging by their hind legs and nibbling the pine-needles; they seem to be gently drowsing with the needles at their mouths.

When twilight returns they resume their frolics.
To watch these frolics in the tops of the trees is hardly possible; let us try to observe them in captivity.