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Fruit and bread, a scientific diet . Fig. 9.—Eye-teeth of an old size. intervening spaces between the human teethcharacterizes man as the highest aud purestexample of the frugivorous animal. The eye-teeth of the gorilla have often been referredto as evidence that this animal does notstrictly belong to the Frugivora, but the mostcareful observation has substantiated the TEETH OF VARIOUS AXTMALS. 29 theoretical view which has here been pre-sented, and has satisfactorily shown that notonly the gorilla, but also the orang andchimpanzee, in a state of freedom, subsist ex-clusively u
Fruit and bread, a scientific diet . Fig. 9.—Eye-teeth of an old size. intervening spaces between the human teethcharacterizes man as the highest aud purestexample of the frugivorous animal. The eye-teeth of the gorilla have often been referredto as evidence that this animal does notstrictly belong to the Frugivora, but the mostcareful observation has substantiated the TEETH OF VARIOUS AXTMALS. 29 theoretical view which has here been pre-sented, and has satisfactorily shown that notonly the gorilla, but also the orang andchimpanzee, in a state of freedom, subsist ex-clusively upon fruits and grains, except per-haps when driven by hunger to a temporaryresort to other and less preferred eye-teeth of the anthropoid apes areof a totally different character from thecanine teeth of the Carnivora. The formerare small and stout, and somewhat triangular,while the latter are long, round and Fig. 10.—Eye-toothop a young Go-rilla. Naturalsize.
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