ASIATIC APES 



a difficult part of a tree. The beard of the Diana monkey 

 is not a mark of sex. It is an adornment of the female 

 as well as of the male. It is stated that the monkey 

 is apparently proud and careful of the well-being of this 

 ornament. When drinking it will carefully hold it 

 aside. This black-faced West African monkey is one 

 of the species with which the Zoo is sure to be furnished. 

 The visitor will also find many of the remaining forty 

 or so species of Cercopitheciis. 



THE LANGUR OR HANUMAN 



The Holy Apes, genus Semnopithecus, to one species 

 of which, S. entellus, the name Hanuman is applied, 

 are collectively known as Langurs, and inhabit the 

 East, including the continent of India. They differ 

 from the macaques of the same region and from the 

 Cercocebi and Cercopitheci of Africa in having no cheek 

 pouches in which to store superfluous food for sub- 

 sequent mastication ; they always have a long tail, 

 which the macaques, as has been remarked, do not 

 always possess, and they have a large and complex 

 stomach instead of the small and human-like stomach 

 of the macaques and their allies of Africa. They attain 

 also to a fair size, and a species of Rhinopithecus (hardly 

 distinguished in reality from Semnopithecus , except by 

 its nose) is the largest existing monkey after the great 

 Anthropoids. The name Holy Ape implies the fact that 

 many of these monkeys are reverenced by the native, 

 and thus enjoy immunity from persecution ; this freedom 

 from interference leads them to such lengths that the 

 species which we are considering here more especially, 

 the Indian Hanuman, visits and pilfers from shops 

 with impunity and takes open exercise upon the roofs 

 of houses. Like so many apes, the Hanuman is sociable, 

 and moves about in clans, which occasionally meet other 



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