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those of a human being; the head, shoulders and back are covered with long black 
hair; its legs have calves, and the chimpanzee can easily walk on its hind legs, 
though the position is awkward. It is tailless and pouchless, and wears its 
hair parted in the middle. Its hairless face is copper-colored and wrinkled, 
its nails are black, and the palms of its hands and its fingers are copper in 
color. Its eyes are small, sunken, and hazel in color; its height is about four 
feet; its cranium is depressed, and its forehead not entitled to be called even 
retreating since it is a mere ridge-like projection. As it grows older it 
becomes less and less amiable, and its physical degeneration is quite marked. It 
lives, or at least congregates, in groups and is much given to throwing stones at 
the travellers, or using the branches as missiles. For the most part it is frugivo- 
rous, but to a very small extent it is insectivorous. It interweaves leaves and 
branches for the sake of furnishing itself with a comfortable bed. The natives 
regard it as a man dumb through choice lest it share their curse of labor. 
The Bald Chimpanzee ( Ti'oglodytes calves ) adds to the luxury of its home 
the most elaborated leafy screens. 
The Chimpanzee has the same habitat as the gorilla, to which it seems to 
be nearly allied. Its color, like that of the gorilla, is black, but it ornaments its 
nose.with a few 
white hairs, 
and which give 
its face some 
resemblance to 
that of the Chi¬ 
nese. Its muz¬ 
zle projects at 
the expense of 
its nose which 
is unusually 
flattened. Un¬ 
like the gorilla, 
the chimpanzee 
is social and gregarious instead of being sullen and solitary, and as it is widest 
awake at night and much given to exhibitions of its vocal powers, the silence of 
the forest is often broken by its cries. The chimpanzee is not as a preference 
arboreal although climbing is not difficult to it. It prefers to find caverns or open¬ 
ings in the rocks where it builds huts for the occupancy of its family, but the male 
refuses to enter, keeping guard on its roof as if he were fearful of the stifling atmos¬ 
phere of his tenement house, and prefers a continuous existence in the open air. 
The chimpanzee in captivity has always proved amiable and docile, but soon suc¬ 
cumbs to consumption, which is the prevailing disease among the monkey 
tribes. The chimpanzee , unlike the gorilla, can act in co-operation with his kind, 
and it seems no mere accident that this power should have been restricted to the 
species which is certain not to combine for injury to mankind. The chimpanzees 
always keep sentinels posted, which are never untrue to their trust, but utter a 
warning cry at the least appearance of danger. Like the gorilla, the chimpanzee 
fears none of the animal kingdom except the leopard, for which it has the great¬ 
est aversion (possibly because it is arboreal), and when one is pursued by 
hunters, it will follow from tree to tree scolding and vilifying its enemy in a 
manner exhibiting the greatest excitement and fury. 
POSITIONS OF THE ORANG-OUTANG WHEN WALKING. 
