. From North pole to equator: studies of wild life and scenes in many lands. Animal behavior; Birds; Tundras; Ethnology; Birds. 292 FROM NORTH POLE TO EQUATOR. which place their hands and feet, or the former au any rate, on the level of paws. These outward features correspond to their mental endowments. Monkeyhood, we may say, has not reached its full development in the family of marmosets. Not only in form and colour, but in their carriage, in their whole character and behav-. Fig. 43.—Common Marmoset or Ouistiti (Bapale Jaechus). iour, even in their voice, they remind us of the rodents. They
. From North pole to equator: studies of wild life and scenes in many lands. Animal behavior; Birds; Tundras; Ethnology; Birds. 292 FROM NORTH POLE TO EQUATOR. which place their hands and feet, or the former au any rate, on the level of paws. These outward features correspond to their mental endowments. Monkeyhood, we may say, has not reached its full development in the family of marmosets. Not only in form and colour, but in their carriage, in their whole character and behav-. Fig. 43.—Common Marmoset or Ouistiti (Bapale Jaechus). iour, even in their voice, they remind us of the rodents. They seldom sit upright, and at the best are rather like squirrels than like other monkeys; they prefer to stand on all-fours with the body horizontal; they do not climb easily and freely, with hands and feet clasping the branch, like others of their order, but, stick- ing their claws into it, they press close to it and glide along, not. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884; Thomson, Margaret R. , tr; Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur), 1861-1933, ed. London [etc. ] Blackie & Son, Limited
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