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commit crimes, dream dreams, cry out in distress, 

 are affected by alcohol, opium, strychnine, and 

 other drugs, see, hear, smell, taste, and feel, are 

 industrious, provident and cleanly, have languages, 

 risk their lives for others, manifest ingenuity, 

 individuality, fidelity, affection, gratitude, heroism, 

 sorrow, sexuality, self-control, fear, love, hate, 

 pride, suspicion, jealousy, joy, reason, resent- 

 ment, selfishness, curiosity, memory, imagination, 

 remorse all of these things, and scores of others, 

 the same as human beings do. 



The anthropoid races have the same emotions 

 and the same ways of expressing those emotions 

 as human beings have. They laugh in joy, whine 

 in distress, shed tears, pout and apologise, and get 

 angry when they are laughed at. They protrude 

 their lips when sulky or pouting, stare with wide- 

 open eyes in astonishment, and look downcast 

 when melancholy or insulted. When they laugh, 

 they draw back the corners of their mouth and 

 expose their teeth, their eyes sparkle, their lower 

 eyelids wrinkle, and they utter chuckling sounds, 

 just as human beings do (5). They have strong 

 sympathy for their sick and wounded, and manifest 

 toward their friends, and especially toward the 

 members of their own family, a devotion scarcely 

 equalled among the lowest races of mankind. 

 They use rude tools, such as clubs and sticks, and 

 resort to cunning and deliberation to accomplish 

 their ends. The orang, when pursued, will throw 

 sticks at his pursuers, and when wounded, and 

 the wound does not prove instantly fatal, will 



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