Category: History - Ancient
Our first acquaintance with the great anthropoid apes dates from the times of remote antiquity. The West Coast of Africa, which is the abode of these animals, was known to the Carthaginians as early as B.C. 500. In B.C. 470 Hanno set out with sixty fifty-oared galleys, laden w...
Our first acquaintance with the great anthropoid apes dates from the times of remote antiquity. The West Coast of Africa, which is the abode of these animals, was known to the C...
2. CHAPTER II.In the gorilla, the chimpanzee, and the orang-utan the external form is subject to essential modifications, according to the age and sex. The difference between the sexes is mos...
3. CHAPTER III.In order to complete as far as possible the description which we propose to give of the general natural history of these remarkable animals, it is necessary to examine their ana...
4. CHAPTER IV.Up to recent times it was generally supposed that there was only one species of gorilla, and the differences in the structure of the skeleton and of the external body which were...
5. CHAPTER V.The gorilla inhabits the forests of West Africa, between lat. 2° N. and 5° S., and long. 6° and 16° E. They are most widely diffused in the northern part of this territory, on t...
6. CHAPTER VI.The accounts given by the earliest observers of gorillas would lead us to expect that the attempt to tame even young apes of this species must be fruitless. Du Chaillu tells us...
7. CHAPTER VII.The racial history of apes can only be traced with any certainty up to the Miocene period. The fact of the contemporary existence of apes and pachydermata has been frequently as...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Huxley’s statement, that the lowest apes are further removed from the highest apes than the latter are from men, is, according to my experience, still perfectly valid. It cannot...