CHAPTER XL

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APES AND MONKEYS.

The Forest Life of the Simiæ--Excellent Climbers, Bad Pedestrians--Similitude and Difference between the Human Race and the Ape--The Chimpanzee--Chim in Paris--The Gorilla-- The Uran--The Gibbons--The Proboscis Monkey--The Huniman-- The Wanderoo--The Cercopitheca--A Plundering Party--Parental Affection of a Cercopitheca--The Maimon--‘Happy Jerry’-- The Pig-Faced Baboon--The Derryat--Wide Difference between the Monkeys of both Hemispheres--Distinctive Characters of the American Monkeys--The Stentor Monkey--The Spider Monkeys--The Laïmirit--Friendships Between Various Kinds of Monkeys--Nocturnal Monkeys--Squirrel Monkeys--Their Lively Intelligence--The Loris and Makis 496

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