Zöology; a textbook for colleges and universities . by E. R. Sanborn,N. Y. Zool. Soc. and Catarrhine FIG. 186. Lemur (Lemur varius);Madagascar. 410 ZOOLOGY (narrow-nostril)group, — the for-mer peculiar tothe New World,the latter to theOld World. Thehigher apes andmen are to beassociated withthe Old Worldgroup. The tailin many of theSouth American. Photograph by E. R. Sanborn,N. Y. Zool. Soc. FIG. 187. Orang-utan (Simia satyrus);Sumatra and Borneo. Hoofedmammals monkeys is prehensile; that is, it can be usedto hold on to a branch, as the animal swingsand leaps through the forest. I
Zöology; a textbook for colleges and universities . by E. R. Sanborn,N. Y. Zool. Soc. and Catarrhine FIG. 186. Lemur (Lemur varius);Madagascar. 410 ZOOLOGY (narrow-nostril)group, — the for-mer peculiar tothe New World,the latter to theOld World. Thehigher apes andmen are to beassociated withthe Old Worldgroup. The tailin many of theSouth American. Photograph by E. R. Sanborn,N. Y. Zool. Soc. FIG. 187. Orang-utan (Simia satyrus);Sumatra and Borneo. Hoofedmammals monkeys is prehensile; that is, it can be usedto hold on to a branch, as the animal swingsand leaps through the forest. In the OldWorld no monkeys have a prehensile tail, andin the anthropoid (manlike) apes or Simiidcethere is no tail at all. (g) Artiodactyla, or even-toed ungulates (hoofedanimals). The (morphologically) third andfourth toes are almost equally developed, theothers small or absent. This order includesthe following important families :(i) Suidce. Pigs, na-tives of the OldWorld. (ii) Tayassuidcz. Pec-caries, theAmerican rep-resentatives of the pigS. Photograph by E. R. Sanborn, ,...,,. N. Y. Zool. Soc. (in) nippol)otamid<2. „ .,. FIG. 188. African bush pig (Pota-HippOpOtamUS mochaerus porcus). Family Suidae.
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