42’ NATURAL HISTORY. 
PIGMY APE. 
Tuts animal has a flat face, with ears like thofe of 
aman. Itisas large asa cat, and has olive brown 
hair. It fubfifts chiefly on fruit, ants, and other in- 
fects. In order to find ants, they affemble in troops, 
and turn over every ftane in fearch of them. Africa 
is the country where they are moftly found. In ani- 
mal exhibitions, the pigmy ape is not uncommon. 
Their difpofition is very gentle and tractable. “The 
hair on their head feems to come over the forehead. 
like the cowlofamonk. Its hands are remarkably 
fimilar to thofe of human nature. Ofall the various 
fpecies, this, being the moit harmlefs, is moft fought 
after by thofe who are fond of making fuch creatures 
the object of their attention and amufement. 
The long armed ape, called, by M. Buffon, the gib- 
bon, is a moft extraordinary animal. It walks erect, 
has no tail, and has fuch long arms, that when he 
fate upright, he can touch the ground with his 
ands. ty 
The tufted ape, has a head fo long, that it meafures 
fourteen inches. It has along upright tuft of hair on 
the top of the head, and another under the chin. 
There are alfo, the maggot, or Barbary ape; and 
the Simia Porcaria. | : 
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BABOON, : | els 
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"Luis animal is about three feet and half high, has a 
thick body, ftrong limbs, and long canineteeth. The 
tail is thick, crooked, and feven inches long. It has 
a pouch in each cheek, where it depofits its provifions ; 
which fhows that itis adapted to live in countries 
