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small birds and insects. Next higher come the American 

 marmosets, the howling monkeys, and the flat-nosed, pre- 

 hensile-tailed American apes; still higher are the small- 

 nosed, nonprehensile-tailed apes, including the baboons, 



FIG. 305. Simla satyt^us, the orang-utan, in breadfruit tree. From a 

 photograph of a group, in the Field Columbian Museum. 



mandrills, and macaques. Finally, come the tailless, man- 

 like apes, found exclusively in the Old World the gib- 

 bons, orangs (Fig. 305), chimpanzee, and the gorilla. 

 The two latter are nearest to man, but one cannot say 

 one is the nearer. For, while the chimpanzee approaches 



