714 NATURAL HISTORY. 



and though they frequently take to the trees, they are far less arboreal 

 than their cousin, the chimpanzee. 



Last to be mentioned of all the animal kingdom is man, and to even 

 outline his natural history would require volumes. While differing but 

 little in structure from the great apes just mentioned, there is an intel- 

 lectual superiority, which marks him off from all the rest, and places him 

 on a higher plane. Between a gorilla or a chimpanzee and the most cul- 

 tured of the Aryan race the differences are immense ; but if these animals 

 are compared with some of the lower races of man, the distance between 

 the two is not so great, and, indeed, in some respects the apes do not suffer 

 much by the comparison. The whole animal kingdom is a tree of which 

 man is the highest twig, but the branch of apes reaches nearly as far 

 upwards. 



