68 MAMMALIA—CHIMPANSE. 
THE CHIMPANSE.! 
Cuvrer thus describes this remarkable species of ape. “It is covered 
with black or brown hairs, less thickly in front. If we can trust to the 
relations of travellers, this animal approaches, or even surpasses, the human 
stature. But we have not yet seen in Europe any speciinen confirmatory, 
or even indicative, of the truth of this assertion. It inhabits Guinea and 
Congo—lives in troops—constructs huts of leaves and branches of trees— 
arms itself with stones and clubs, and employs’ them to repulse from its 
dwelling both elephants and men—pursues and carries off the negro wo- 
men, &c. Naturalists have constantly confounded this animal with the 
orang outang. In a domesticated state, it becomes gentle enough to be 
taught to walk upright, and to sit and eat after our manner.” ; 
The chimpansé approaches the human form more nearly than any other 
animal. Unlike the orang outang, it has no intermaxillary bone. It has 
also the last joint of the great toe perfect. That it has greater facility for 
the biped or upright mode of locomotion than the orang outang, is alse 
apparent, by its possessing the round ligament of the thigh bone, which the 
orang has not. 
Griffith closes his account of this animal in the following words: “Of the 
intellectual properties of this species, as we can add little new, we shall not 
1 Troglodytes niger. The genus T'roglodytes comprises Simiz with four incisor teeth 
above, and four below; two canines above, and two below; ten molars above, and ten 
below—in all, thirty-two teeth. Canines little projecting: contiguous to the incisors and 
molars, as those of man; head rounded ; earls little projecting; superciliary ridge 
prominent; facial angle, fifty degrees ; arms almost proportioned to the legs, reaching ta 
the bottom of the thighs; thumbs long and opposable; no taii theek pouches, intermaxil 
lary bones, nor callosities on the buttocks. 
