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Title: Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia
Identifier: brehmslifeofanim1896breh (find matches)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884; Pechuel-Loesche, Edward, 1840-1913; Haacke, Wilhelm, 1855-1912; Schmidtlein, Richard
Subjects: Mammals; Animal behavior
Publisher: Chicago : Marquis
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THE PRIAMUS MONKEY. —A native of Ceylon, very active and intel- ligent, and is about sixteen inches long, with a tail twen- ty inches in length Its color is a deep gray, with tinges of brown, and its lips, chin -. and whiskers are nearly pure white. This ani- mal makes prodigious swings through the air and easily escapes pursuit. (Semnopithccus . nestor.) THE DOG-SHAPED MONKEYS. The second group of the Narrow-nosed Apes consists of the Dog- shaped Monkeys ( Cynopithecita). Their distinguishing features are the forward projection of the snout especially noticeable in the lower tribes, the shorter arms, the frequent occurrence of a tail and cheek-pouches, and the regular existence of callosities on the hinder quarters. In other respects they show a great variety of structure, ranging from the elon- gated shape of the Slender Monkeys to the bulky form of the Baboons. Where Dog- They are natives of the warm countries of the Old World, Shaped especially India, from the Himalaya Mountains south, Monkeys Live. Cochin China, the Malay Archipelago, Southern Arabia and the whole of Africa, with the exception of the Eastern Sahara country. They are the most active of their family, clever, but in the majority of cases malicious and indecent. They do a great deal of damage, plundering plantations and orchards in the boldest manner, and sometimes exciting general fear by their malicious propensities. By the people of some of the countries which they inhabit they are looked upon with the greatest contempt, while among others religious superstition invests them with the attributes of sanctity. SLENDER OR SACRED MONKEYS. Among the Dog-shaped Monkeys we will first turn to the Slender or Sacred Monkeys (Scmnopithecus), which are, as their name indicates, slightly built, and are endowed with long, fine extremities and a very long tail, a small, high head, a face devoid of hair, and a short snout, pro- vided with small cheek-pouches. Their callosities are very small. The last molar tooth in the lower jaw is furnished with five cusps. The skeleton in its slenderness reminds one of that of the Gibbons. The hands have long fingers, but the thumbs are short or very little developed, and not adapted for grasping. The hair is wonderfully fine, its coloring agreeable, and in one tribe peculiar; and the hair of the head is sometimes considerably longer than that of the body. They are found in the southern part of the continent of Asia, Ceylon and the islands of the Indian Ocean. Here they live in more or less numerous troops in the forests, preferring the banks of a river or the neighborhood of villages or plantations, and being universally protected by the natives they lead an exceedingly enjoyable life. The foremost place among the Slender or Sacred Monkeys belongs to the Hoonuman, or Hulman, the Sacred Monkey of the Hindoos (Semnopitketnts entettus), which is the most common of all the Ape species

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