. The animals of the world. Brehm's life of animals;. Mammals. 52 THE APES AND MONKEYS. suiky Monkey, steep the arrow in weak Urari When he falls down unconscious from the poison. agerie in the United States. There are some very fine specimens in Lincoln Park, Chicago, and in Central Park, New York City]. The Capuchins are the species most frequently seen in the European animal markets ; the Spider Monkeys are rarer, and the Saimaris one hardly ever meets. Very few liv- ing Howlers have been brought to Europe. The Broad-nosed or American Monkeys are di- vided into two groups : those whose tail
. The animals of the world. Brehm's life of animals;. Mammals. 52 THE APES AND MONKEYS. suiky Monkey, steep the arrow in weak Urari When he falls down unconscious from the poison. agerie in the United States. There are some very fine specimens in Lincoln Park, Chicago, and in Central Park, New York City]. The Capuchins are the species most frequently seen in the European animal markets ; the Spider Monkeys are rarer, and the Saimaris one hardly ever meets. Very few liv- ing Howlers have been brought to Europe. The Broad-nosed or American Monkeys are di- vided into two groups : those whose tails are pre- hensile, the Cebidae, and those whose tails are not prehensile, the Pithecidae. THE HOWLERS. Chief among the Cebidas is the Howler {Mycetes). The head of this animal is high and of pyramidal shape and the muzzle projects forward. The thumbs are thin. The chin is adorned with a beard. A re- markable peculiarity of the Howlers is their hyoid bone, or the bone in the neck from which the mus- cles of the tongue arise. Alexander von Humboldt was the first naturalist to dissect the Howler, and he says : Where Howlers "The other American Monkeys, get their whose voice is piping like a Spar- Strong Voice, row's, have a plain, thin hyoid bone; but in this species the tongue rests on an extensive bony drum. Their upper larynx has six pockets which reflect the voice ; two of these pockets are shaped like a pigeon's nest and resemble a bird's larynx. The plaintive sound peculiar to the Howlers is produced by the air forcibly streaming into the bony drum. If one considers the size of this drum, he is no longer astonished at the strength of the MIBIKI SPIDER MONKEY. It is only in South America that Monkeys are found whose tails are prehensile, or capable of grasping the objects about which they coil. The Spider Monkeys are especially gifted in 'this way, a particularly interesting family of these being the Miriki. They live in Southeastern Brazil, have' fur of a wooUytexture,
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