Garner, Richard Lynch, 1848-1920 · Boston and London, Ginn & company · leaf 298
ombines to a certain extent more human-likeform in one part with a more beast-like form in another.The usual height of an adult male is about fifty-one inches. I have never had an opportunity of studying this ape ina wild state and have had access to only a few of them THE ORANG 275 in captivity.… … Young Orangs(From a Photograph.) in point of speech and mental caliber he is far inferior.Perhaps the best authorities upon the habits of this apein a wild state are Messrs. W. T. Hornaday and Alfred R.Wallace. The smallest and last in order of the anthropoid apes isthe gibbon. He is much smaller…
Monkeys · Speech · Sound production by animals
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