The Living Animals of the World 



to Dr. Savage, a missionary, for 

 our first account of its habits, 

 in 1847. 



The chimpanzee, like the 

 gorilla, is found only in Africa. 

 The range includes West and 

 Central Equatorial Africa, from 

 the Gambia in the north to near 

 Angola in the south, while it 

 occurs in the Niam-Niam country 

 to the north-west of the great 

 lakes, and has been discovered 

 recently in Uganda. The new 

 Uganda Eailway, \\hich will open 

 out the great lakes to the east, 

 will bring English travellers well 

 within reach of the nearest haunt 

 of these great apes. It is on 

 the likeness and difference of 

 their form and shape to those of 

 man that the attention of the 

 world has been mainly fixed. 



The chimpanzee is a heavily 

 built animal, with chest and arms 

 of great power. The male is 

 slightly taller than the female. 

 The crown is depressed, the chin 

 receding, the ridges which over- 

 hang the eye-sockets more 

 prominent than in man, less so 

 than in the gorilla. Tlie nose 

 has a short bridge, and a flat 

 extremity. Tlie ear is large, and 

 less human than tliat of the gorilla. 

 The hands and feet are comparatively long ; the digits are, except the thumb and great toe, joined 

 by a web. The arms are short for an ape, reacliing only to the knees. The teeth are similar 

 to those of man, and the canines of only moderate size. Tlie chimpanzee has thirteen pairs of 

 ribs, and, like man, has a suggestion at the end of the vertebrte of a rudimentary tail. It 

 walks on all-foiu-s, with the backs of its closed fingers on the ground, and can only stand upright 

 by clasjiing its hands above its head. The skin is of a reddish or brown flesh-colour, the hair 

 black, with wliite patches on the lower part of the face. The bald chimpanzee has the top, 

 front, and sides of the face bare, exceedingly large ears, thick lips, and black or brown hands 

 and feet. 



The chim[)anzee's natural home is the thick forest, where troj)ical vegetation ensures 

 almost total gloom. But near Loango it frequents the mountains near the coast. It is a 

 fruit-feeding animal, said to do much damage to plantations, but the bald race, at all 

 events in captivity, takes readily to flesh, and the famous " Sally " which lived in the Zoo for 

 over six years used to kill and eat pigeons, and caught and killed rats. The male chimpanzee 

 builds a nest in a tree for his family, and sleeps under its shelter ; when food becomes scarce 

 in the vicinity, a move is made, and a new nest built. This ape lives either in separate families 

 or communities not exceeding ten in number, and is monogamous. 



As to the animal's courage, it is difficult to get accurate information, as the sins of the 



Photo hi/ Scholastic Photo. Co.'] 

 " JENNY, 



[Parson's Gree'ii. 



THE WELL-KNOWN CHIMPANZKK AT THE ZOO. 

 A VERY CHARACTEKISTIC rOSi:. 



In this picture the rounded ear, human-lilce wrinkles on the forehead, and length of 

 the toes should "be noted. 



