CHAPTER III 



The Man-like Apes and their mode of Life — ^Their " Courtships ** — 

 Musical Chimpanzees — How the Orang-utan improves his 

 voice — His likeness to Caliban — The truculent visage of the 

 Gorilla — "Ornament" in the lower Apes — ^The Concerts of 

 the Howler Monkeys. 



We are none of us given to boasting of our poor rela- 

 tions, and most of us indignantly repudiate our kinship 

 with the Apes. But facts are stubborn things : the 

 relationship is there, whether we admit it or not: and 

 those who love truth for truth's sake will not shirk the 

 comparison between themselves and their remote cousins. 

 Unhappily, from our present point of view, this cannot 

 be carried very far, for the " Love idylls " of the Apes 

 have yet to be written. Such facts, however, as have 

 been gleaned are interesting. Of the higher, man-like, or 

 " Anthropoid " species only the most meagre information 

 is to be obtained ; but this nevertheless is interesting. 

 For the most part we have to be satisfied with inferences 

 drawn from a study of the external differences between 

 the sexes — from the " Secondary Sexual Characters,'* 

 in short, and from the records of travellers who have 

 encountered these creatures in their native wilds. 



The species which throw most light on this theme are 



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