PROBOSCIS MONKEY 



One of the many interesting forms in the Primates Hall 



The orang utans, on the south, or left side, show a family of these 



Orang Utans 



great apes feeding on durians. This group, one of the 



first groups of large animals to be mounted in this country, 

 was looked upon as a daring innovation. 



The red monkeys, engaged in rolling up sheets of moss, as one 



Af . would a rug, to get at the insects beneath, illustrate the 



Red Monkeys P°i R t that some monkeys feed largely on the ground. 



At the other extreme are the spider monkeys, so named 



Spider from their slender, spidery limbs, who dwell in the tree 



tops under the roof of the jungle. 



Noteworthy among the single specimens is the gorilla, largest and 



most powerful of apes; "Mr. Crowley," for many years a resident in 



the Central Park Zoo, and the curious proboscis monkey from Borneo. 



Skeletons of man and the large apes illustrate the similarities and 



differences in structure between them and there is an important series 



of skeletons of monkeys and lemurs. 



The fruit bats, often known as flying foxes, the largest members of 



the order and found only in the warmer parts of the Old World, are 



F it B represented by a small portion of a colony from Calapan, 



Philippine Islands. Such a colony may number several 



thousands, and be very destructive to bananas and other fruits. 



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