. The study of animal life. Zoology. CHAP. XVI Backboned Animals 271 companions of itinerant musicians, while lowest and smallest among true monkeys are the South American marmosets. Distinct from all these, probably outside the monkey order altogether, are the so-called half-monkeys or Lemurs. We might describe the clever activities of monkeys, the shelters which some of them make, their family life, parental care and sociality, their docility, their intelligent habits of investigation, and their quickness to profit by experience ; but it would all amount to this, that their life at many poin
. The study of animal life. Zoology. CHAP. XVI Backboned Animals 271 companions of itinerant musicians, while lowest and smallest among true monkeys are the South American marmosets. Distinct from all these, probably outside the monkey order altogether, are the so-called half-monkeys or Lemurs. We might describe the clever activities of monkeys, the shelters which some of them make, their family life, parental care and sociality, their docility, their intelligent habits of investigation, and their quickness to profit by experience ; but it would all amount to this, that their life at many points touches the human, that they are in some ways like growing children, in other ways like savage men, though with more circumscribed limits of progress than either. ORDERS OF MARSUPIALS MONOTREMES. 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 Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur), 1861-1933. New York, C. Scribner's sons [printed at the Edinburgh press]
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