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is dense. In favourable places, the hunter may, by good 

 fortune, see three or four in a day. 



Except in the pairing time, the old males usually live by 



FIG. 9. An adult male Orang-Utan, after Muller and Schlegel. 



themselves. The old females, and the immature males, on 

 the other hand, are often met with in twos and threes ; 

 and the former occasionally have young with them, though 

 the pregnant females usually separate themselves, and 

 sometimes remain apart after they have given birth to 

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