. The American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. Natural history. B\ 1 HimisM 111 t 1 DW ^RDs Bhus A DHESSED-UP CHIMPANZEE. mind of the former is more alert, and acts more quickly than that of the orang. In walking, the Chimpanzee does not place the palms of its hands flat upon the ground, but bends its fingers at the middle joint, and walks upon its knuckles. It does not, as so often asserted on hearsay evidence, build a hut or a roof of branches under which to sleep. Its home is the heavy forest region of equatorial Africa, from the Atl
. The American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. Natural history. B\ 1 HimisM 111 t 1 DW ^RDs Bhus A DHESSED-UP CHIMPANZEE. mind of the former is more alert, and acts more quickly than that of the orang. In walking, the Chimpanzee does not place the palms of its hands flat upon the ground, but bends its fingers at the middle joint, and walks upon its knuckles. It does not, as so often asserted on hearsay evidence, build a hut or a roof of branches under which to sleep. Its home is the heavy forest region of equatorial Africa, from the Atlantic ocean to Lake Tanganyika. Like the gorilla, its skin is black, and when young its hair also, but when fully grown its hair is dark iron- gray. This animal can at one glance be dis- tinguished from the orang-utan by the greater size of its ears, and its black color. The Orang-Utan (from two pure Malay words, "orang" = man, and "utan" = jungle) is also about two-thirds the size of the gorilla, and is easily recognized by its brick-red hair, brown skin and small ears. The largest speci- men on record stood 4 feet 6 inches in height from heel to head, measured 42 inches around the chest, and between finger tips stretched S feet. The old males develop a strange, flat ex- pansion of the cheek, called "cheek callosities," f3 inches across; but in 3'oung animals this is seldom developed. The hand is 11^ inches long, the foot 13 J inches, but the width of each across the palm is only SJ inches. The weight of a large, full-grown male Orang is about 250 pounds. The black gorilla and chimpanzee both in- habit the land of black men; the brown Orang- Utan lives only in Borneo and Sumatra, the land of the brown-skinned Malay. The latter prefers the belt of level, swampy forest near the coast, li\'es wholly in the tree-tops, and rarely descends to the earth except for water. Orangs travel by swinging underneath the large branches with their long, muscular ar
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