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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: THE GELADA Genus?Theropithecus Habitat?Abyssinia The gelada is a true baboon in everything but the situation of the nostrils, which are some distance behind the end of the nose. It was classed by Riipell, who brought it first from its home in Abyssinia, as a macaque. Later it went into the baboon family. Now, like the gelada, it is regarded as belonging to a genus connecting the two. It is large, possessed of a heavy mane, and like a baboon in most particulars. THE BABOONS Genus?Cynocephalus Habitat?Africa, Arabia With the baboon, or dog-faced monkey, nearly the last vestige of the resemblance of the Primates to man, either in appearance or disposition, passes from view, and a fierce quadruped, repulsive in looks and evil in temper, demands attention. Of many kinds, occupying nearly all of Africa and Arabia, varying in size from a great Dane to a small pug, they have been celebrated in the sculptures of both Egypt and Babylonia. The commonest of them, the dog-faced baboon (C. hamadryas), has had its looks likened to a cross between a lion and a French poodle. They are sometimes caught by the Arab horsemen, owing to a stupid habit of keeping a straight line ahead when pursued. The chacma (C. porcarius) is at the other end of Africa, its name being from the Hottentot. Unlike the foregoing, it has no mane, and it is sometimes as large as mastiff. It is a mountaineer in habit, and gregarious to a degree. The mandril (C. mormon) is almost too ugly to be real, having great swellings of light blue, purple and scarlet on the face and flanks. It is west African in its haunts. The drill (C. leuco- phaeus) is only less repulsive, the face being uniformly black. AMERICAN MONKEYS Families?Cebidce and Hapalidce All the members of the monkey tribe in America, with the exc...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217170918 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217170919 |
| Weight | 0.96 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.66 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 294 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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