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Wallace says that the orang seldom comes down 

 upon the ground, and indeed only when he is driven 

 by hunger to seek for the juicy young shoots on the 

 banks of rivers, or when in very dry weather he goes 

 down to the water, of which he generally finds a 

 sufficient supply in the hollow of leaves. This 

 traveller on only one occasion saw two half-grown 

 orangs on the ground in a dry hole at the foot of 

 the Simunjon hills. They were at play together, 

 standing upright and alternately seizing each other 

 by the arms. This observer also considers that the 

 orang is only able to stand upright when he 

 has some support for his hands, or when he is 

 attacked. 



Like other anthropoids in a state of nature, when 

 the orang drinks, he crouches down to the water's 

 edge and sucks in the liquid with his lips. Occa- 

 sionally, also, he draws water in the palm of his hand, 

 and gulps or licks it off; at any rate, he does this 

 when in captivity. In an old number of the Penny 

 Magazine there is a woodcut of an orang which is 

 very true to nature, in which he is represented as 

 squatting down by the water, washing his hands, 

 and this is really his habit. 



Miiller and Schlegel * state that the adult males 

 live alone except during the pairing season. Aged 

 females and young males are often seen together in 

 parties of two or three, and the mothers generally 

 keep their young with them. Pregnant females 

 generally live apart, and continue to do so for a 



* Verhandelingen over de natuurlijke geschiedenis der Neder- 

 landsche overzeesche Bezittinge7i : Leiden, ISlO-i'S. 



