Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 243
sions.The apes proper are tailless; and owing to thefact that many monkeys are likewise tailless,the latter have been improperly called apes.The baboons are distinct, both in character andin distribution. All of these animals belongto the order of Primates—animals with handsand hand-like feet—and… … The Apes. Theapes are the ani-mals most nearlyrelated to man.They are the mosthighly developedand intelligentspecies of theorder of Primates.They are familiarto everybody,and comprise thegorilla, chimpan-zee, orang-utan,and the severalspecies of gib-bons. These animals belong to the familySimiidcR.…
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