THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD 



to Dr. Savage, a missionary, for 

 our first account of its habits, 

 in 1847. 



The chimpanzee, like the 

 gorilla, is found only in Africa. 

 The range includes West and 

 Central Equatorial Africa, from 

 the Gambia in the north to near 

 Angola in the south, while it oc- 

 curs in the Niam-Niam country 

 to the northwest of the great 

 lakes, and has been discovered 

 recently in Uganda. The new 

 Uganda Railway, which will open 

 out the great lakes to the east, 

 will bring many travelers well 

 within reach of the nearest haunt 

 of these great apes. It is on the 

 likeness and difference of their 

 form and shape to those of man 

 that the attention of the world 

 has been mainly fixed. 



The chimpanzee is a heavily 

 built animal, with chest and arms 

 of great power. The male is 

 slightly taller than the female. 

 The crown is depressed, the chin 

 receding, the ridges which over- 

 hang the eye-sockets more prom- 

 inent than in man, less so than in 

 the gorilla. The nose has a short 

 bridge, and a flat extremity. The 

 ear is large, and less human than that of the gorilla. The hands and feet are comparatively 

 long ; the digits are, except the thumb and great toe, joined by a web. The arms are short for 

 an ape, reaching only to the knees. The teeth are similar to those of man, and the canines of 

 only moderate size. The chimpanzee has thirteen pairs of ribs, and, like man, has a suggestion 

 at the end of the vertebrae of a rudimentary tail. It walks on all-fours, with the backs of its 

 closed fingers on the ground, and can only stand upright by clasping its hands above its head. 

 The skin is of a reddish or brown flesh-colour, the hair black with white patches on the lower 

 part of the face. The bald chimpanzee has the top, front, and sides of the face bare, exceedingly 

 large ears, thick lips, and black or brown hands and feet. 



The chimpanzee's natural home is the thick forest, where tropical vegetation ensures almost 

 total gloom. But near Loango it frequents the mountains near the coast. It is a fruit-feeding 

 animal, said to do much damage to plantations, but the bald race, at all events in captivity, takes 

 readily to flesh, and the famous " Sally " which lived in the Zoo for over six years used to kill and 

 eat pigeons, and caught and killed rats. The male chimpanzee builds a nest in a tree for his 

 family, and sleeps under its shelter ; when food becomes scarce in the vicinity, a move is made, 

 and a new nest built. This ape lives either in separate families or communities not exceeding 

 ten in number, and is monogamous. 



As to the animal's courage, it is difficult to get accurate information, as the sins of the 



Pkuc by Schtiaitic P/itto. Co.] [fanon'i Green 



"JENNY," THE WELL-KNOWN CHIMPANZEE 



A VERY CHARACTERISTIC POSE 



In this picture the rounded ear, human-like -wrinkles on the forehead, and length of the 

 toes should be noted 



