OLD WORLD MONKEYS 



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The Siamang, 1 of Sumatra, is the largest 

 and rarest of the Gibbons. It is jet black, all 

 over, face as well as fur, and it has a throat pouch 

 which is distended to astounding proportions 

 when it utters its peculiar, piercing cry. This 

 species is as rare in captivity as the gorilla, and 

 the only specimen seen alive in the New World 

 up to 1903 was exhibited at the New York Zoo- 

 logical Park in that year. 



OLD-WORLD MONKEYS AND BABOONS. 



Cercopithecidae. 



Typical Old-World Monkeys. — Asia, Africa 

 and the islands of the Malay Archipelago con- 

 tain a great number of species of monkeys. The 

 most northern is the sturdy Japanese Red- 

 Faced Monkey, with no tail to speak of. It is 



catching cold. Their tempers are quite as warm 

 as their blood. 



From Japan, monkey-land extends southward 

 through China, and southern Asia generally, the 



Sakborn, Photo., N. Y. Zoological Park. 



JAPANESE RED-FACED MONKEY. 

 Note the narrow space between the nostrils. 



clothed with long, shaggy hair, and those in the 

 New York Zoological Park live outdoors all 

 winter, and gallop about in the snow without 



1 Sym-pha-lan'gus syn-dar'tu-lus. 



DIANA MONKEY. 



Malay islands almost to Australia, and through- 

 out the whole of Africa except its great deserts, 

 to the extreme south. 



Of all these Old-World species, none have 

 -prehensile (grasping) tails, like many American 

 species. Many of them are beautifully colored, 

 however, and the markings of some are quite fan- 

 tastic. The Diana Monkey, of West Africa, 

 is elaborately marked with black, white, gray 

 and brown, and it is one of the most beautiful 

 of all monkeys. An old-world monkey can 

 nearly always be recognized by the very narrow 

 space between the nostrils. 



Short-Tailed Monkeys. — It must not be 

 supposed that because the tail of a monkey is 

 so short as to be scarcely visible, the wearer is 

 therefore a true ape. There are several baboon- 

 like animals with tails exceedingly short and in- 

 significant, but which are far removed from the 

 true apes. Some of these are called apes, but 

 they are all much lower in the scale. Of these, 

 the most important are : 



The Black "Ape" of Celebes; 



The Barbary 'Ape" of Gibraltar and North 

 Africa ; 



The Pig-Tailed Ma-caque' (pronounced Ma- 

 cak') of the East Indies, east of Ceylon, and 



The Japanese Red-Faced Monkey. 



The Baboons. — In nearly every portion of 

 Africa abounding in rocky hills covered with 

 scanty vegetation may be found Baboons, — 

 fierce of aspect, domineering in temper, strong 

 of limb, and sometimes very ugly in eountenance. 



