THE CHIMPANZEE. 
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for tlie forest life, which requires the ability to move rapidly and also to climb very easily. 
The arms are in constant movement when the Chimpanzee is walking, and if they are not 
assisting in the motion they are uplifted, the head being, moreover, carried a little forward with 
regard to the body. When the hands clasp a cross-bar, the little use of the small thumb is readily 
noticed, and the body is allowed to swing, as it were, at the full length of the arms, the thumb not 
assisting in holding on. Cut when it climbs a pole, it grasps just like a man under the same cir- 
cumstances, and the thumb partly encircles the wood. It is very curious to feel the grasp of the 
hand, and the vigorous squeeze that the foot can give, and to look at the palms and soles. The palms 
seem very wrinkled across, but not to have a ball under the thumb of any size, and they seem narrow 
for their length. But although this is the case, and the thumb is short, they assist in grasping very 
forcibly. All the fingers and the thumbs have flat nails on them, which do not approach the character 
of a claw, and corresponding nails are found on the feet. All the heel is naked, as if it came through 
a hole in a stocking of black hair ; and as a whole, the foot is shorter than the hand, the third toe 
being the longest. The toe-thumb is easily movable, and assists in climbing, for it grasps with the 
aid of the other toes very readily. Like the other large Apes already mentioned, it has no calf, and 
the legs seem to be too small for it, and to be stuck on to the body by small hips. The roundness 
behind is wanting, and therefore the muscles which particularly assist in the erect position are not 
large, as in man. 
Yet at first sight there is something very human about the Chimpanzee ; it looks like a very old 
child, and doubtless this is increased by its gentle habits and amiability; and there is every apology 
to be made for the early geographers and anatomists, who called it the “ Pigmie.” 
One of the first living Chimpanzees which was brought over took some strange dislikes to 
people. When it was brought on board the ship it would give its hand to be shaken by some, but 
refused it to others of the sailors with marks of anger, and it speedily became very familiar with 
the crew, except with a boy, to whom it never became reconciled. When the seamen’s mess was 
brought on deck, it was a constant attendant; it would go round and embrace each person, while it 
uttered loud yells, and then seated itself to enjoy the repast. If it was pleased at any favourite morsel, 
or if a piece of sweetmeat was given to it, satisfaction was expressed by a sound like a “hem,” in a 
grave tone ; but if it was made angry or vexed, it would bark like a dog or cry like a child, and 
scratch itself most vehemently. It was active and cheerful in warm latitudes, but it became languid 
as it left the Torrid Zone, so that a blanket had to be given it as the Channel was reached. 
Bamboo, a Chimpanzee, once in the Zoological Society’s Gardens, Itegent’s Park, and the subject 
of the following sketch, by Lieut. Sayers, “ was purchased from a Mandingo, at Sierra Leone, who 
related that he had captured him in the Bullom country some months before, having first shot the 
mother, on which occasions the young ones never fail to remain by their wounded parents. On becoming 
mine, he was delivered over to a black boy, my servant, and in a few days became so attached to him as 
to be exceedingly troublesome, screaming and throwing himself into the most violent passion if he 
attempted to leave him for a moment. He evinced also a most strange affection for clothes, never 
omitting an opportunity of possessing himself of the first garment ho came across, whenever he had the 
means of entering my apartment. He carried it immediately to the piazza, where invariably he 
seated himself on it with a self-satisfied grunt; nor would he resign it without a hard fight, and, on 
being worsted, exhibited every symptom of the greatest anger. Observing this strange fancy, I pro- 
cured him a. piece of cotton cloth, which, much to the amusement of all who saw him, he was never 
without, carrying it with him wherever he went, nor could any temptation induce lain to resign it even 
for a moment. Totally unacquainted with their mode of living in the wild state, I adopted the follow- 
ing method of feeding him, which has appeared to succeed admirably. In the morning, at eight o clock, 
he received a piece of bread, about the size of a halfpenny loaf, steeped in water or milk and water; 
about two, a- couple of bananas or plantains ; and before he retired for the night, a banana, orange, or 
slice of pine-apple. The banana appeared to be his favourite fruit; for it he would forsake all other 
viands, and if not gratified, would exhibit the utmost petulance. On one occasion I deemed it necessary 
to refuse him one, considering that he had already eaten a sufficiency, upon which he threw himself 
into the most violent passion, and uttering a piercing cry, knocked his head with such violence against 
the wall as to throw himself on his back, then ascending a chest which was near, wildly threw his 
