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ANTHROPOID APES. 



have been able to use their feet like hands, as some 

 compensation for this privation. The most surpris- 

 . ing instance of our time has occurred in the violinist 

 without arms, whose performances are heard in 

 various continental capitals. Another, mentioned 



Fig. 33.— Satan's ape (^Pithecia Satanas). Shows the formation and mode of using 

 the feet in apps of the New World. 



by Bar, was able to write with his feet. But even 

 people who have the- full use of their upper limbs 

 can often grasp with the great toe as if it were a 

 thumb, so as to pick up small objects from the 



