VI 



The Living Animals of the World 



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Photo by FroLd^i AUnari] 



\_FLorence. 



A HAPPY FAMILY. 



IIj;«na, tiger, and lions living in amity — a remarkable proof of tlieir tamer's power. In 

 tlie same park at Hamburg, belonging to Herr Hagenbeck, are also bears, dogs, leopards, and 

 pumas, all loose together. 



bone resembles very nearly 



that of a man, though Dr. 



Virchow, whom Englishmen 



remember in connection with 



the Mai illness of the German 



Emperor I'^rederick, considered 



it did not differ from that of 



one of the gibbons. The 



inference is that the creature 



tualked ^ijjright ; and this fact 



is recorded in its scientific 



name. 



As regards the skull, some 



specialists in anthropology said 



that it was that of a large ape, 



of a kind of gil)bon (a long- 

 armed, upright-walking ape, 



described later), of a " higher anthrop)oid ape," and of a low type of man. Finally, Dr. 



Cunningham, the able secretary of the Royal Irish Zoological Society, said it resembled that 



of a " microcephalous idiot." It is rather strange if the remains of the first and only man 



found in the Lower Pleistocene should 

 happen to be those of a microcephalous 

 idiot, for out of many millions of men born 

 there are perhaps only one or two of this 

 type. Compared with the head of any 

 of the living apes, it is very large. Its 

 brain-holding power is about five to three 

 comjiared with the skull of a gorilla, and 

 two to one compared with that of a 

 chimpanzee. 



There is a tradition in Sumatra that 

 man-like apes exist, of a higher character 

 than the orang-utan. Pending the discovery 

 of more remains, the following extract is 

 worth quoting, as giving shape to current 

 ideas about such creatures both here and 

 among the Malays. They take form in a 

 very curious and interesting book, called 

 "The Prison of Weltevreden," written by 

 Walter M. Gibson in the middle of the last 

 '-'■'■'■"■'■■""■ centm-y. His story is that he was kept in 



another of Lord Delaiiiere s East African photographs, and . ^ 



bhowa ;i couple of wild elephants in the open. piison ut Y\ eltevreden, in Java, by the Dutch 



