OKDERS OF MAMMALS— APES AND MONKEYS 



By permi 



of Edwards Bros. 



13 inches across; but in young animals this is 

 seldom developed. The hand is 11 J inches long, 

 the foot 13J inches, but the width of each across 

 the palm is only 3f inches. The weight of a 

 large, full-grown male Orang is about 250 

 pounds. 



The black gorilla and chimpanzee both in- 

 habit the land of black men; the brown Orang- 

 utan lives only in Borneo and Sumatra, the land 

 of the brown-skinned Malay. The latter prefers 

 the belt of level, swampy forest near the coast, 

 lives wholly in the tree-tops, and rarely descends 

 to the earth except for water. Orangs travel by 

 swinging underneath the large branches with 

 their long, muscular arms. Because of their 

 great weight, they cannot leap from tree to tree, 

 as monkeys do, but they swing with wonderful 

 rapidity and precision. They eat all kinds of 

 wild fruit, fleshy leaves, and the shoots of the 

 screw pine. 



In proper hands, young Orang-Utans are very 

 susceptible to training. In 1901 the New York 



A DEESSED-UP CHIMPANZEE. 



mind of the former is more alert, and acts more 

 quickly than that of the orang. 



In walking, the Chimpanzee does not place 

 the palms of its hands flat upon the ground, but 

 bends its fingers at the middle joint, and walks 

 upon its knuckles. 



It does not, as so often asserted on hearsay 

 evidence, build a hut or a roof of branches under 

 which to sleep. Its home is the heavy forest 

 region of equatorial Africa, from the Atlantic 

 ocean to Lake Tanganyika. Like the gorilla, 

 its skin is black, and when young its hair also, 

 but when fully grown its hair is dark iron- 

 gray. This animal can at one glance be dis- 

 tinguished from the orang-utan by the greater 

 size of its ears, and its black color. 



The Orang-Utan (from two pure Malay 

 words, "orang" = man, and "utan" = jungle) 

 is also about two-thirds the size of the gorilla, 

 and is easily recognized by its brick-red hair, 

 brown skin and small ears. The largest speci- 

 men on record stood 4 feet 6 inches in height 

 from heel to head, measured 42 inches around 

 the chest, and between finger tips stretched S 

 feet. The old males develop a strange, flat ex- 

 pansion of the cheek, called "cheek callosities," 



Drawn by 0. B. Hudson. 



A FIGHT IN THE TREE-TOPS. 

 Old male Orang-Utans, with cheek callosities. 



