WILD BEASTS AND THEIR WAYS. 
The first of a series of articles on popular Zoology, 
By Sir Harry Jounston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., D.Sc. 
I. THER GREAT APES. 
T has occurred to me that there are some points connected with the habits and 
peculiarities of African wild beasts that are not generally known or understood, and 
might therefore be of interest to the readers of this Magazine. 
The anthropoid or man-hke apes are represented m Tropical Africa at the present 
day by two genera, Gorilla and Anthropopithecus. The first named contains one 
species, the well-known 
gorilla; and the second 
comprehends the two or 
three different kinds of 
chimpanzees. Perhaps on 
the whole the gorilla is 
slightly nearer to the 
human family than is the 
chimpanzee. Its feet ap- 
proximate more to the 
shape, structure, and 
relative length of the 
human foot; its cranial 
capacity is slightly greater 
than in the last named ape, 
and the nose exhibits a 
recognisable bridge with a 
distinct tip at the end, 
whereas in the chimpanzee 
there is often a depression 
at the end of the nose 
between the two largely 
developed alae or nostrils. 
The gorilla leads a more 
terrestrial life than the 
chimpanzee. This enor- 
mous ape (of which speci- 
mens have been found at 
the back of the Cameroons 
reaching to 5 feet 6 inches 
in height, with an extraor- 
dinary chest measurement, 
and weighing perhaps as 
much as 17 stone) is 
obyiously less likely than 
the chimpanzee to trust 
his heavy body to the 
doubtful support of a 
branch, a fall from which 
) FEMALE GORILLA, 
From the original drawing by J. Wolf in the possession of the Zoological 
Society, here reproduced by special permission for the first time. 
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