Man and Apes
by St George Jackson Mivart (9780217505987)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Fig. 27.?The Bed Howling Monkey (Hycetes). the whole body can be easily sustained hanging by the tail only It even serves as a fifth hand, grasping and bringing in objects otherwise out of reach. The Spider Monkeys are very gentle in disposition, and seem by this, by their long limbs and great agility, to represent, as it were, in the New World the Gibbons of the Eastern Hemisphere. There are various species of Spider Monkeys. Amongst them may be mentioned the Coaita (Fig. 23), which is destitute of every external trace of a thumb; and the Chameck (Fig. 24), in which each thumb is represented by a minute, nailless tubercle. The commonest American monkeys are the Sapajous (Cebus), which are those generally exhibited for their tricks by itinerant Italians. They have long tails curled at the end, but not naked beneath, nor capable of grasping with the power possessed by the tails of the Spider Monkeys, There are numerous races of Sapajous, butthe individuals vary so remarkably that the number of species has been as yet by no means satisfactorily determined. The common brown Sapajou, or Capuchin (Fig. 25), and the yellow-breasted kind (Fig, 26) may be mentioned as examples. The Sapajous make good pets, being both lively and gentle; their voice, moreover, is attractive, having a gentle and pleasing flute- like sound. The Howling Monkeys (Mycetes) are sluggish and, apparently, stupid animals. They have long and very prehensile tails (Fig. 27); but, as their name implies, it is their power of voice which particularly distinguishes them.; They have longish thumbs, and their muzzles are more produced than are those of any other of the Cebidcv; so that they maybe considered, as it were, to be the Baboons of the New World, as the Spider Monkeys are its Gibb...

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