Natural history of animals; . ad. They all breathe air by meansof lungs, have warm blood which is sent throughoutthe body by means of a heart constructed like that ofMan, and the neck has only seven vertebrae. Man. Man is at the head of the Animal Kingdom. He isthe only animal to whom the upright position is nat-ural ; the only one which has a perfect hand; the onlyone whose forward extremities — arms and hands — arenot used for locomotion ; the only one that laughs ; theonly one that speaks a language ; his brain is largerthan that of almost any other animal,* and he can livein all countries.
Natural history of animals; . ad. They all breathe air by meansof lungs, have warm blood which is sent throughoutthe body by means of a heart constructed like that ofMan, and the neck has only seven vertebrae. Man. Man is at the head of the Animal Kingdom. He isthe only animal to whom the upright position is nat-ural ; the only one which has a perfect hand; the onlyone whose forward extremities — arms and hands — arenot used for locomotion ; the only one that laughs ; theonly one that speaks a language ; his brain is largerthan that of almost any other animal,* and he can livein all countries. But Man is also far more than ananimal. He has a mind and a soul and can learnmuch about the things which God has made. *The brain of the Elephant and of the Whale is larger than that ofMan, but the animals themselves are also far larger. MONKEYS. Monkeys, or Quadrumana. 23 Apes and Monkeys are animals all of whose fourfeet are hand-like, as the great toe can be shut againstthe other toes, like a thumb. Hence comes their. Fig. 34.—Chimpanzee, scientific name, Quadrumana, which means four-handed. But though these hands are well adapted forgrasping and climbing, they are much inferior to theperfect hand of Man. Some kinds of Ape can stand 24 VERTEBRATES : MAMMALS. upright, but not firmly, for the soles of their feetnearly face each other, and cannot be brought flat tothe ground like the foot of Man. About eighty kindsof Monkey live in the forests of the warm parts ofAsia and Africa, and even more kinds in South
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