SOME CHARACTERS OF THE ORANG 
bability does the gorilla. It is possible, therefore, that 
we may believe in at any rate racial varieties of these 
apes. The gorilla has got its name under false pre- 
tences. It is certainly not the ape seen to pick up and 
hurl stones by the Carthaginian Hanno, author of the 
Pertplous. That creature was probably a baboon, 
which does live in herds and can throw stones. 
THE ORANG UTAN 
The orang, whose scientific name is Sima satyrus, 
and whose vernacular Malayan name generally used by 
us signifies Man of the Woods, is, like the gibbon, an 
Asiatic kind of anthropoid ape. It is Bornean and 
Sumatran in range; and in those great islands of the 
East frequents steamy forests. The orang is a large 
and heavily built ape, with a melancholy countenance, 
and a very protuberant abdomen, a feature of all the 
Anthropoids except the specially athletic gibbons. 
Its tawny yellow colour is well known, and it has been 
pointed out that while the black chimpanzee and 
gorilla share their forests with equally black man, the 
yellow Malay pursues the yellow orang. 
As with the anthropoid apes generally, the examples 
of orangs exhibited at the Zoo are invariably young 
creatures, and thus do not show all the salient characters 
of the huge ape of Borneo. For in the fully developed 
male the face is broadened by a callous expansion at the 
sides, which is eminently characteristic, and gives to 
the ape a remarkable look distinctive of it. The orang 
is more peaceable than its relatives in Africa, and is 
said to rarely dispute matters with man. Those at 
the Zoo seem to have always a friendly attitude of mind, 
which seems to fit in with their slow ways and some- 
what sad demeanour. At times, however, the orang 
can lose its temper; Mr. Wallace reports a continued 
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