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indeed, the Orang has been described as moving with laborious 
caution. 
This Ape inhabits flat and forest-clad ground, and lives mainly 
in the trees. The male leads a solitary life except at the pairing 
season, but the female goes about with her family. On the 
eround the Orang walks with no great ease, and uses his arms as 
crutches to swing the body along. Even on trees the rate of 
progress is not rapid, and is accomplished with careful investiga- 
tions as to the capabilities of the branches to bear his weight. 
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Fic, 280.—A, Skull of a young Orang-Utan. Stmia satyrus. (One-third natural size.) 
B, Skull of an adult Orang-Utan. (One-third natural size.) (From Wiedersheim’s 
Structure of Man.) 
The “ Man of the Woods” has been stated to build a hut in trees. 
This is an exaggeration of the fact that it constructs a temporary 
nest. 
One of these nests has lately been described elaborately by 
Dr. Moebius. It was found (by Dr. Selenka) on the fork of a 
tree at.a height of 11 metres from the ground. Every night, as 
it appears, or every second night, the animal constructs a new nest 
for himself, abandoning the old one. So numerous, therefore, are 
these nests in localities frequented by Orangs, that a dozen can be 
readily found in a day. The particular nest which Dr. Moebius 
examined was 1°42 metres long, and at most ‘80 metre broad. It 
was built of about twenty-five branches, broken off and laid for 
