A VOL'NG CHIMPANZEE 



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Mammals of Other Lands 



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APES, MONKEYS, AND LEMURS 



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ARABIAN BABOON 



THE MAN-LIKE Al'ES 



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The Chimpanzee 



all the great apes the Chimpanzee most closely ap- 



Oproaches man in bodily structure and appearance, 

 although in height it is less near the human standard 

 than the gorilla, 5 feet being probably that of an adult male. 



Several races of this ape are known, among them the True 

 Chimpanzee and the Bald Chimpanzee. The varieties also include 

 the Kulo-kamba, described by Du Chaillu.and the Soko, discovered 

 by Livingstone, who confounded it with the gorilla. But the varia- 

 tions in neither of these are sufficiently important to justify their 

 being ranked as species. 



The first authentic mention of the chimpanzee is found in 

 •• The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell," an English sailor 

 taken prisoner by the Portuguese in 1590, who lived eighteen 

 years near Angola. He speaks of two apes, the Pongo and 

 the Enjocko, of which the former is the gorilla, the latter the 

 chimpanzee. The animal was first seen in Europe in 1641, and 

 described scientifically fifty-eight years later, but we are indebted 

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