Category: Science - Biology
The World of Monkeys, and its Division into great Groups--Distinction between the Old World and New World Monkeys--Classification of Monkeys--THE GORILLA, Ancient and Modern Stories about it--Investigations of Savage and Du Chaillu--General Description--The Head, Brain, Teeth,...
The World of Monkeys, and its Division into great Groups--Distinction between the Old World and New World Monkeys--Classification of Monkeys--The GORILLA, Ancient and Modern Sto...
48. CHAPTER II.General Description of the Golden Mole Family--Their Points of difference from the True Mole--THE CAPE GOLDEN MOLE--Its Varieties--The Family of True Moles--THE COMMON MOLE--Des...
32. CHAPTER VIII.Early Accounts of the Baboon--Origin of the Name--Held as Sacred by the Egyptians--Used as the Emblem of Thoth--Brought into Europe in the Middle Ages--Their Literature--General...
47. CHAPTER I.Functions of the Insect-eaters in the Order of Nature--Their leading Peculiarities--Classification--COLUGOS--Various Opinions regarding their Place--COLUGO, OR FLYING LEMUR--The...
26. CHAPTER II.THE NSCHIEGO MBOUVÉ--Its Nests and Habits--A Specimen Shot--Differences between it and the Gorilla--Structural Peculiarities--THE KOOLO-KAMBA--Meaning of the Name--Discovered by...
34. CHAPTER X.The Monkeys of the New World--How Distinguished from those of the Old--Their Division into Families--The First Family, THE CEBIDÆ, with Prehensile Tails--THE HOWLERS--Appropriat...
40. CHAPTER XVI.THE GALAGOS--DEMIDOFF’S GALAGO AND THE MOUSE GALAGO--THE SENEGAL GALAGO--THE SENNAAR GALAGO--THE MAHOLI GALAGO--THE GRAND, OR THICK-TAILED GALAGO--MONTEIRO’S GALAGO--THE AFRICAN...
44. CHAPTER IV.The Genus _Vespertilio_ and the Family Vespertilionidæ--Characteristics: Nostrils--Tail--Ears--Dentition--Diet--Distribution--LONG-EARED BAT--Ears--Distribution--Asleep--In Capt...
46. CHAPTER VI.Distinguishing Marks of the _Phyllostomidæ_--Location--Diet--Blood-sucking Propensities--Exaggerations of the Older Writers--Testimony of Azara--Darwin’s Evidence--Bat-bites--Th...
29. CHAPTER V.General Characteristics of the Monkeys of the Old World--Distinguished from the Apes by Length of the Hinder Limbs and presence of Tails--Divided into those with and those witho...
27. CHAPTER III.Origin of the Name--Description of the Orang--Rajah Brooke’s First Specimen--Mr. Wallace’s Experiences in Mias Hunting--The Home of the Mias--A Mias at Bay--Their Nests, Habits,...
38. CHAPTER XIV.The Name of the Genus Lemur popularly given to the Group--Lemuroida the Correct Name--Their Distinctive Characters--Their Hands and Feet--Ankle-bones--Tail--_Rete Mirabile_--Nos...
31. CHAPTER VII.Their Description and Anatomy, and its reference to that of the Semnopitheci and Guenons--THE COMMON MACAQUE--Its Character--Appropriateness of the Name--Occasionally an Albino-...
45. CHAPTER V.Characteristics of the _Emballonuridæ_, or THICK-LEGGED BATS--CUVIER’S FURY--The Genus _Saccopteryx_--STRIPED SACK-WINGED BAT--The Pouch or Sac in the Wing-membrane--Dentition--...
43. CHAPTER III.INSECTIVOROUS BATS--Mr. Dobson’s Objection to the Name--Characteristics--Nasal Appendages--THE VESPERTILIONINE AND EMBALLONURINE ALLIANCES--The Fur in the Two Alliances--THE HOR...
35. CHAPTER XI.General Description of the Second Division of Cebidæ--Without Prehensile Tails--THE SQUIRREL MONKEYS--Described by Buffon and Humboldt--Peculiarities of the Species--Anecdotes b...
42. CHAPTER II.Characteristics of Fruit-Eating Bats--Distribution--Diet--Flying Fox of Ceylon: its Habits, as described by Sir E. Tennent--The Flight of the _Pteropidæ_--Known to the Ancients-...
30. CHAPTER VI.THE GUENONS--Where they are Found--Early Notices of them--Resemblance to the Colobi and Macaques--Distinctive Peculiarity of the Group--Often seen in Menageries--Their Terror of...
28. CHAPTER IV.General Characteristics of the Species--THE SIAMANG--Its Habits and Anatomy--Distinctness from the Orangs and Gibbons--Special Peculiarities--THE WHITE-HANDED GIBBON--Where Foun...
39. CHAPTER XV.Called by the French _Makis_--Restricted to Madagascar--Their Activity--Different Species--How to distinguish them--THE RING-TAILED LEMUR--Reason for the Name--Tail--Colour of B...
33. CHAPTER IX.The Second Division of the Baboons--THE MANDRILL--Easily Distinguished from the rest--Peculiar Appearance and Colour of the Face--The Cheek-ridges--Noticed by the Ancients--Brut...
41. CHAPTER I.One of Æsop’s Fables--Opinions of the Ancients regarding Bats--Scaliger’s Statement of the Puzzle--Opinions of the Middle Ages--The True Position of the Bats--The Wing of the Ba...
37. CHAPTER XIII.The Classification of the Monkeys of the New World--The Geographical Distribution of the Genera--The Fossil Monkeys of the New and Old World and their Alliances--The former old...
36. CHAPTER XII.The Dentition of the Genus Hapale, or the Marmosets, or Ouistitis--The Face--The Paw-like Hands and Feet--Their Claws--The Skull and Brain, and the Nature of the Diet--THE COMMO...
24. CHAPTER II.General Description of the Golden Mole Family--Their Points of Difference from the True Mole--THE CAPE GOLDEN MOLE--Its Varieties--The Family of True Moles--THE COMMON MOLE--Des...
5. CHAPTER V.General Characteristics of the Monkeys of the Old World--Distinguished from the Apes by Length of the Hinder Limbs and presence of Tails--Divided into those with and those witho...
10. CHAPTER X.The Monkeys of the New World--How Distinguished from those of the Old--Their Division into Families--The First Family, THE CEBIDÆ, with Prehensile Tails--THE HOWLERS--Appropriat...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Early Accounts of the Baboon--Origin of the Name--Held as Sacred by the Egyptians--Used as the Emblem of Thoth--Brought into Europe in the Middle Ages--Their Literature--General...
7. CHAPTER VII.Their Description and Anatomy, and its reference to that of the Semnopitheci and Guenons--THE COMMON MACAQUE--Its Character--Appropriateness of the Name--Occasionally an Albino-...
15. CHAPTER XV.Called by the French _Makis_--Restricted to Madagascar--Their Activity--Different Species--How to Distinguish them--THE RING-TAILED LEMUR--Reason for the Name--Tail--Colour of B...
11. CHAPTER XI.General Description of the Second Division of Cebidæ--Without Prehensile Tails--THE SQUIRREL MONKEYS--Described by Buffon and Humboldt--Peculiarities of the Species--Anecdotes b...
19. CHAPTER III.INSECTIVOROUS BATS--Mr. Dobson’s Objection to the Name--Characteristics--Nasal Appendages--THE VESPERTILIONINE AND EMBALLONURINE ALLIANCES--The Fur in the two Alliances--THE HOR...
18. CHAPTER II.Characteristics of Fruit-eating Bats--Distribution--Diet--Flying Fox of Ceylon: its Habits, as described by Sir E. Tennent--The Flight of the _Pteropidæ_--Known to the Ancients-...
6. CHAPTER VI.THE GUENONS--Where they are Found--Early Notices of them--Resemblance to the Colobi and Macaques--Distinctive Peculiarity of the Group--Often seen in Menageries--Their Terror of...
22. CHAPTER VI.Distinguishing Marks of the _Phyllostomidæ_--Location--Diet--Blood-sucking Propensities--Exaggerations of the Older Writers--Testimony of Azara--Darwin’s Evidence--Bat-bites--Th...
14. CHAPTER XIV.The Name of the Genus Lemur popularly given to the Group--Lemuroida the Correct Name--Their Distinctive Characters--Their Hands and Feet--Ankle-bones--Tail--_Rete Mirabile_--Nos...
21. CHAPTER V.Characteristics of the _Emballonuridæ_, or THICK-LEGGED BATS--CUVIER’S FURY--The Genus _Saccopteryx_--STRIPED SACK-WINGED BAT--The Pouch or Sac in the Wing-membrane--Dentition--...
9. CHAPTER IX.The Second Division of the Baboons--THE MANDRILL--Easily distinguished from the rest--Peculiar Appearance and Colour of the Face--The Cheek-ridges--Noticed by the Ancients--Brut...
17. CHAPTER I.One of Æsop’s Fables--Opinions of the Ancients regarding Bats--Scaliger’s Statement of the Puzzle--Opinions of the Middle Ages--The True Position of the Bats--The Wing of the Ba...
16. CHAPTER XVI.THE GALAGOS--DEMIDOFF’S GALAGO AND THE MOUSE GALAGO--THE SENEGAL GALAGO--THE SENNAAR GALAGO--THE MAHOLI GALAGO--THE GRAND, OR THICK-TAILED GALAGO--MONTEIRO’S GALAGO--THE AFRICAN...
4. CHAPTER IV.General Characteristics of the Species--THE SIAMANG--Its Habits and Anatomy--Distinctness from the Orangs and Gibbons--Special Peculiarities--THE WHITE-HANDED GIBBON--Where Foun...
1. CHAPTER I.The World of Monkeys, and its Division into great Groups--Distinction between the Old World and New World Monkeys--Classification of Monkeys--THE GORILLA, Ancient and Modern Sto...
20. CHAPTER IV.The Genus _Vespertilio_ and the Family Vespertilionidæ-- Characteristics: Nostrils--Tail--Ears--Dentition--Diet--Distribution --LONG-EARED BAT--Ears--Distribution--Asleep--In Ca...
23. CHAPTER I.Functions of the Insect-eaters in the Order of Nature--Their Leading Peculiarities--Classification--COLUGOS--Various Opinions regarding their Place--COLUGO, OR FLYING LEMUR--The...
2. CHAPTER II.THE NSCHIEGO MBOUVÉ--Its Nests and Habits--A Specimen Shot--Differences between it and the Gorilla--Structural Peculiarities--THE KOOLO-KAMBA--Meaning of the Name--Discovered by...
3. CHAPTER III.Origin of the Name--Description of the Orang--Rajah Brooke’s First Specimen--Mr. Wallace’s Experiences in Mias Hunting--The Home of the Mias--A Mias at Bay--Their Nests, Habits,...
12. CHAPTER XII.The Dentition of the Genus Hapale, or the Marmosets, or Ouistitis--The Face--The Paw-like Hands and Feet--Their Claws--The Skull and Brain, and the Nature of the Diet--THE COMMO...
13. CHAPTER XIII.The Classification of the Monkeys of the New World--The Geographical Distribution of the Genera--The Fossil Monkeys of the New and Old World and their Alliances--The Former Old...