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BEGINNERS' ZOOLOGY 



Fig. 401. — Sacred Monkey of India {Semnopithecus enteUus). x A. 



Monkeys, Apes, and Man. — 



Study the figures (399, 400); 

 compare apes and man and ex- 

 plain each of the differences in 

 the following list : ( 1 ) feet, three 

 differences; (2)arms; (3)brain 

 case; (4) jaws; (5) canine 

 teeth ; (6) backbone ; (7) dis- 

 tance between the eyes. 



A handy unlike a foot, has 

 one of the digits, called a 

 thumb, placed opposite the 

 other four digits that it may be 

 used in grasping. Two-handed 



man and four-handed apes and v .^ 



1 11 1 „„j ■„ Fig. 402. — Lemur (Lemur Mon* 



monkeys are usually placed in ^ ^ whlch diglt bears a 

 one order, the Primates, or claw? 



