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SOUTH PAVILION 
1. Monkeys, APES AND PRIMITIVE MAN 
2. RopENTS 
The primates, the monkeys and apes of the world, occupy the South 
eae Pavilion of the third floor, the first hall at the left as one 
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and Apes 
brain capacity resemble man more closely than do any 
other of the mammals, but while man and the apes have sprung from a 
common ancestor, in no sense has man descended from the existing apes. 
A family of orang-utans, the most powerful and most ferocious 
of the apes, is shown in a case on the south side of the 
hall. In another case the skeleton of a chimpanzee, “ Mr. 
Crowley,” and of a gorilla are placed beside a skeleton of a man to allow 
a study of the similarities in structure. 
Orang-utan 
Group 
On the other side of the hall will be found the bats, the only mammals 
that really fly, and the hares and other rodents, among which 
Rodents iat ; ee 
the rat, mice and squirrels are familiar examples. The 
rodents are the most numerous and the most widely distributed of the 
mammals. 
Suspended from the ceiling in the center of the hall is a skeleton of a 
North Atlantic right whale which is more than forty feet in length. The 
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