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GENERAL ZOOLOGY 



gorilla (Croril'la goril'la) and chimpanzee (Anthropopithe'cus 

 troglod'ytes) of equatorial Africa. Of these the chimpanzee 

 is the most gentle in disposition and the most intelligent. 

 All these monkeys lead a more or less arboreal life and build 

 nests in trees, where the young are produced. 



FIG. 225. Photograph of Spider-Monkey 

 (American Museum of Natural History) 



That man belongs zoologically in the same group with the 

 monkeys is now universally admitted, for in the structural 

 characters upon which classification largely depends, as Prc 

 fessor Huxley pointed out many years ago, he differs less 

 from the apes, which resemble him most, than they do from 

 other monkeys. The principal anatomical characters are the 



