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THE INTERMEDIATE PRIMATES 



the rest. This is especially true in determining flight when the animals are 

 engaged either in pillage or mischief. Occupied in such operations as this, an 

 outpost is usually set in some favorable point from which to give notice of the 



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Courtesy, AmerUan Museum oj Natural History 



FIGS. 134 AND 135. HAND AND FOOT OF PAPIO CVNOCEPHALUS. 



Left. Palmar surface of the hand showing broadening of the pahn with a heel-Iike development in the 

 hypothenar eminence, shortening of the digits including the thumb. These changes are in adaptation 

 to terrestrial life. 



Right. Plantar surface of the foot showing shortening of the toes, broad ball of the foot and narrow 

 lieel, modifications for terrestrial locomotion. 



approach of a foe and thus enable the marauders to escape. 



These baboons inhabit rocky places such as ravines, crags, or hilly 

 promontories where grass and trees are scanty. Their favorite abodes are 

 usually in such places as are surrounded by wide plains which enable them 

 to lie in wait for an opportune moment to commit some pillaging excursion 

 on a garden or field and at the same time to have all opportunity to escape on 

 the approach oi danger. They are much given to malicious mischief of this 



