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Identifier: mansplaceinnatur02huxl (find matches)
Title: Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
Subjects: Human beings Apes Ethnology Indo-Aryans
Publisher: New York, Hurst and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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of Brooke, Wallace, and others. The Orang-Utan would rarely seem to exceed fourfeet in height, but the body is very bulky, measuringtwo- thirds of the height in circumference.* * The largest Orang-Utan, cited by Temminck, measured,when standing upright, four feet; but he mentions having justreceived news of the capture of an Orang Ave feet three incheshigh. Schlegel and Mliller say that their largest old malemeasured, upright, 1.25 Netherlands el ; and from the crownto the end of the toes, 1.5 el; the circumference of the bodybeing about 1 el. The Jargest old female was 1.09 el high,when standing. The adult skeleton in the College of Sur-geons Museum, if set upright, would stand 3 ft. 6-8 in. fromcrown to sole. Dr. Humphry gives 3 ft. 8 in. as the meanheight of two Orangs. Of seventeen Orangs examined by Mr. 48 MANS PLACE IN NATURE. The Orang-Utan is found onlj in Sumatra andBorneo, and is common in neither of these islands—inboth of which it occurs always in low, flat plains, never
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Fig. -An adult male Orang-Utan, after Mliller and Schlegel. Wallace, the largest was 4 ft. 2 in. high, from the heel to thecrown of the head. Mr. Spencer St. John, however, in hisLife in the Forests of the Far East, tells us of an Orang of 5 ft. 2 in., measuring fairly from the head to the heel, 15in. across the face, and 12 in. round the wrist. It does notappear, however, that Mr. St, John measured this Orang him-self. THE MAN-LIKE APEB. 49 in the mountains. It loves the densest and most sombreof the forests, which extend from the sea-shore inland,and thus is found only in the eastern half of Sumatra,where alone such forests occur, though, occasionally, itstrays over to the western side. On the other hand it is generally distributed throughBorneo, except in the mountains, or where the popula-tion is dense. In favourable places, the hunter may, bygood fortune, see three or four in a day. Except in the pairing time, the old males usually liveby themselves. The old females, and the imma

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