. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE MAN-SHAPED APES—ORANG-UTAN. 21. WHITE-HANDED GIBBONS.—These active and prettv animals are found in Terrasserim, southwest of Burmah, and are noted for their loud voices. Troops of them will get together in the deep forests and fill the air with their not unmusical cries for hours at a time. A white band of hair encircles the entire face and the body is black, dark-brown or ochre-brown. These interesting creatures drink water from the palms of their hands
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE MAN-SHAPED APES—ORANG-UTAN. 21. WHITE-HANDED GIBBONS.—These active and prettv animals are found in Terrasserim, southwest of Burmah, and are noted for their loud voices. Troops of them will get together in the deep forests and fill the air with their not unmusical cries for hours at a time. A white band of hair encircles the entire face and the body is black, dark-brown or ochre-brown. These interesting creatures drink water from the palms of their hands, are readily tamed in India but do not long survive foreign captivity. The artist represents them in the picture mounted on a favorite tree, suspiciously regarding some approaching object. {Hylobates lar.) of these nests would be oftener found. The Dyaks claim that in wet weather the Mias covers him- self with pandanus leaves or large ferns. Perhaps thfs is the origin of the belief that the Orang-utan builds a hut in the trees in which to live. " The Orang-utan leaves his bed when the sun is well above the horizon and has dried the dew on the leaves. During the day he eats, but seldom visits the same tree two days in succession. As far as I could determine he feeds almost exclusively on fruit, but occasionally on leaves and buds. In very rare cases he descends to the ground ; probably only when, driven by hunger, he looks for juicy young leaves on the banks of a river ; or when in exceed- ingly dry weather he comes down for water, which is usually supplied him sufficiently in the hollows of leaves. Only once I saw two half- grown Orangs on the ground in a dry hole. They were standing erect, holding each other's arms and playing. This Ape never walks up- right, unless he holds to the branches of trees, or is attacked. Pictures that represent him walk- ing with the help of a stick are pure inventions. " They do not seem to fear Men very much. Nearly all of those I
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