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in captivity. All of these were young, and most of them 

 were inferior specimens. He is the most stupid and 

 obtuse of the four great apes. Except for his skeleton 

 alone, he would be assigned a place below the gibbon, for 



Young Orangs 

 (From a Photograph.) 



in point of speech and mental caliber he is far inferior. 

 Perhaps the best authorities upon the habits of this ape 

 in a wild state are Messrs. W. T. Hornaday and Alfred R. 

 Wallace. 



The smallest and last in order of the anthropoid apes is 

 the gibbon. He is much smaller in size, greater in variety, 



