CHAP. IV] THE GENERAL ANATOMY OF GORILLA 



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The stomach is a simple sac, having relations similar on the 

 whole to those of the human stomach, with the exception that as 

 regards the transverse colon the human stomach is higher, that of 

 the Gorilla being often lower and thus rather behind than above 

 the transverse colon. In the adult Gorilla the human arrange- 

 ment may however obtain. (Cf. Fig. 140.) 



The small intestine is quite distinct in appearance from the 

 large : the relative lengths of these two portions of the gut vary 



Hepatic 

 flexure 



. " Pre-sternal notch 



.Ensiform' 

 cartilage 



. Splenic flexure 



•-Sdb-costal 

 arch 



Stofriach 



Fig. 140. Diagram (to scale) of the relations of the stomach and large intestine 

 in an adult male Gorilla (" Cy "). The stomach is fully distended in this specimen. 



in the following way ; in a foetus of 5 months the length of the 

 small intestine was to that of the large intestine as 3 to 1 ; in a 

 young Gorilla the proportion 4'8 to 1 has been found, and in an 

 adult Gorilla the proportion of 21 to 1 obtained. There would 

 thus appear to be irregularity in the rate of growth of each portion 

 of the gut, and the irregularity is of a reciprocal kind. The 

 general characters of the intestine do not differ materially from 

 those of the human intestine. Deniker suggests that in the 

 Gorilla the vermiform appendix caeci increases in relative size 



