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FOOD 



berries, seeds, fruit, and buds of trees. Lemurs are said to be 

 fond of honey, but their chief diet is fruit and insects. 



Both the teeth and the ahmentary canal of man point to 

 a mixed animal and vegetable diet, though this is modified 

 by climate. In the cold of the Arctic the Esquimaux revel in 



Fig. 32. The Orang-utan, Simia satyrus, sitting on its nest. 

 From a specimen in the Cambridge Museum. 



blubber, whilst there are large tracts of country in the tropics 

 where the natives live on rice, maize or bananas. Man is the 

 only animal that cooks its food, but the distance between the 

 rough cookery of the Australian native or an Abyssinian and 

 that of a French chef is almost immeasurable. The higher 

 branches of cookery are one of the chief arts in which men 

 invariably rise superior to women. 



