. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE WUOYEN APE, OR YUEN. THE IIOOLOOK. Naturalists have ransacked nearly every i)art of the globe for interesting animals, and have pro- ciu-ed them from very out-of-the-way places. One of these localities was particularly diflicult to get at years ago, for it is in the hills, far away to tlie north-east of Calcutta; on the other side of the gi-eat river Brahmapootra, in Assam. Amongst the Garrow and Cossyah liills, vhere there are wild gorges, iuid uplands crowded with vast forests, overlooking the wide plains of the river-valley, there w
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE WUOYEN APE, OR YUEN. THE IIOOLOOK. Naturalists have ransacked nearly every i)art of the globe for interesting animals, and have pro- ciu-ed them from very out-of-the-way places. One of these localities was particularly diflicult to get at years ago, for it is in the hills, far away to tlie north-east of Calcutta; on the other side of the gi-eat river Brahmapootra, in Assam. Amongst the Garrow and Cossyah liills, vhere there are wild gorges, iuid uplands crowded with vast forests, overlooking the wide plains of the river-valley, there were many wonderfully active Gibbons. About two feet in length, they were capable of swinging with unerring certainty from branch to branch, many feet apart; „-<5'~a»=^ and even the females performed these constant and natural ^ ' '^ . movements while their young were hanging to them. ^^ ^ They were black in colour, with white eyebrows, or, rather, a white band across the forehead. Wlien caught, they soon became tamed, especially when young, and were docile and aflectionate. One which was kept by Dr. Burrough was two feet inches in length, yet the fore-limb was only five inches shorter than this, the length of the lian( itself being six inches. So great was the disjirojiortion <jf the legs and arms that the first were, including the feet, only nineteen inche long, and the fijigers 'touched the gi'ound readily when was standing erect. This Hoolook was of a deep black colour, and he had the usual siniiilc band of white across the forehead, and black hands and feet. He was caui;lit in the haunt of this siieoies, not on the uiiiier. but on the lower hills, which do not reach a greater altitude than 500 feet, and being well treated, he was easily tamed, and his habits were capable of being well watched. He liked the fruit of the peepul-tree better than anytliing, and bananas ; but he took to rice and milk, and enjoyed snapping up a sweet or two, and especially de
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