OLD WORLD MONKEYS 
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The Siamang , 1 of Sumatra, is the largest 
and rarest of the Gibbons. It is jet black, all 
over, face as well as fur, and it has a throat pouch 
which is distended to astounding proportions 
when it utters its peculiar, piercing cry. This 
species is as rare in captivity as the gorilla, and 
the only specimen seen alive in the New World 
up to 1903 was exhibited at the New York Zoo- 
logical Park in that year. 
OLD-WORLD MONKEYS AND BABOONS. 
C er copit hecidae. 
Typical Old-World Monkeys. — Asia, Africa 
and the islands of the Malay Archipelago con- 
tain a great number of species of monkeys. The 
most northern is the sturdy Japanese Red- 
Faced Monkey, with no tail to speak of. It is 
Sanborn, Photo., N. Y. Zoological Park. 
JAPANESE RED-FACED MONKEY. 
Note the narrow space between the nostrils. 
clothed with long, shaggy hair, and those in the 
New York Zoological Park live outdoors all 
winter, and gallop about in the snow without 
1 Sym-pha-lan'gus syn-dac’ty-lus. 
catching cold. Their tempers are quite as warm 
as their blood. 
From Japan, monkey-land extends southward 
through China, and southern Asia generally, the 
DIANA MONKEY. 
Malay islands almost to Australia, and through- 
out the whole of Africa except its great deserts, 
to the extreme south. 
Of all these Old-World species, none have 
prehensile (grasping) tails, like many American 
species. Many of them are beautifully colored, 
however, and the markings of some are quite fan- 
tastic. The Diana Monkey, of West Africa, 
is elaborately marked with black, white, gray 
and brown, and it is one of the most beautiful 
of all monkeys. An old-world monkey can 
nearly always be recognized by the very narrow 
space between the nostrils. 
Short-Tailed Monkeys. — It must not be 
supposed that because the tail of a monkey is 
so short as to be scarcely visible, the wearer is 
therefore a true ape. There are several baboon- 
like animals with tails exceedingly short and in- 
significant, but which are far removed from the 
true apes. Some of these are called apes, but 
they are all much lower in the scale. Of these, 
the most important are : 
The Black “Ape” of Celebes; 
The Barbary “Ape” of Gibraltar and North 
Africa ; 
The Pig-Tailed Ma-caque' (pronounced Ma- 
cak') of the East Indies, east of Ceylon, and 
The Japanese Red-Faced Monkey. 
The Baboons. — In nearly every portion of 
Africa abounding in rocky hills covered with 
scanty vegetation may be found Baboons, — 
fierce of aspect, domineering in temper, strong 
of limb, and sometimes very ugly in countenance. 
