Chimpanzees walk on all fours, resting themselves on the calloused backs of their hands.
There are now, or were a few years ago, two chimpanzees in the Stuttgart zoological garden, which are the closest of friends.
Orang-outans and chimpanzees climb slowly and carefully, whilst gibbons show a greater agility and more perfect acrobatic power.
Amongst the numerous chimpanzees which I have owned, several have shown signs of hysteria.
Although the countenances, and more especially the gestures, of orangs and chimpanzees are in some respects highly expressive, I doubt whether on the whole they are so expressive as those of some other kinds of monkeys.
Young chimpanzees make a kind of barking noise, when pleased by the return of any one to whom they are attached.
Twice I took two chimpanzees from their rather dark room suddenly into bright sunshine, which would certainly have caused us to frown; they blinked and winked their eyes, but only once did I see a very slight frown.
The lips of young orangs and chimpanzees are protruded, sometimes to a wonderful degree, under various circumstances.
The Chimpanzees have arms which reach below the knees; they have large thumbs and great toes, their hands are longer than their feet; and their hair is black, while the skin of the face is pale.
The true Chimpanzees approach Man most closely in the skull, dentition, and proportionate length of the arms.
He is also credited with fighting with his teeth, as well as his hands, biting his antagonist, as the Orangs and the Chimpanzees do.
Of the Chimpanzees the Gorilla is more Man-like in the proportions of the leg to the body, and of the foot to the hand; and likewise in the size of the heel, the curvature of the spine, and the absolute capacity of the cranium.
The palm of the hand can be applied flat to the ground; but though the Chimpanzees can stand or run erect on the flat sole of the foot, they prefer to advance leaning forward, supporting themselves on the knuckles of the hand.
The Chimpanzees inhabit forest regions, and feed on wild fruits in the woods, and the products of cultivated gardens, not rejecting, when they can capture it, animal food.
The femaleChimpanzees are slightly smaller than the males, but the disparity between them is much less than between the two sexes of the Gorilla.
Chimpanzees had already then become differentiated, and perhaps Man had even appeared, though the evidence is not sufficiently conclusive.
The Chimpanzees approach very closely to the Gorilla in structure.
Chimpanzees are a big kind of monkey--you've seen pictures of them.
It is with their voices that chimpanzees first manifest their pleasure at seeing cherished friends of the human species, or their anger.
A well- matched pair of young chimpanzees will wrestle and play longer and harder than the young of any other primate species known to me.
Of the apes I have known in captivity, the chimpanzees are by far the most aggressive, courageous and dangerous.
At the same time, two very bright chimpanzees of his own age, and with the same opportunities, discovered nothing.
There are several reasons why chimpanzees predominate on the stage, and why so few performing orang-utans have been seen.
Some chimpanzees are too nervous to be taught, some are too obstinate, and others are too impatient of restraint.
Leopards are the worst, and polar bears stand next, with big chimpanzees as a sure third.
It is then that performing chimpanzees become unruly, fly into sudden fits of temper, their back hair bristles up, they stamp violently, and sometimes leap into a terrorized orchestra.
Somewhere in the program I would try to teach orang-utans and chimpanzees the properties of fire, and how to make and tend fires.
One excellent thing about the manners of chimpanzees and orang- utans in captivity and on the stage is that they do not turn deadly dangerous all in a moment, as do bears and elephants, and occasionally deer.
If caught young, those savages could be trained by civilized men, and taught to perform many tricks, but so can chimpanzees and elephants.
Chimpanzees are entirely restricted to Africa, and though they appear to extend rather farther east than the Gorilla, the forest-clad region of the equatorial belt is their home.
The earliest mention of animals that are probably Chimpanzees is to be found in a work upon the Kingdom of Congo, published in 1598.
The form is characterised {581} by its intense blackness, the red reflection of other Chimpanzees not being visible; also by the bald head, whence of course the name.
Some Chimpanzeesare higher in capacity {574} than some Gorillas.
Imitation Two chimpanzees in the Dublin Zoo were often to be seen washing the two shelves of their cupboard and "wringing" the wet cloth in the approved fashion.
Footnote] *On the Osteology of the Chimpanzees and Orangs: Transactions of the Zoological Society, 1858.
One time these same chimpanzees stole a native drum from the station, and went away pounding merrily on it.
Chimpanzees are found in the great forests of Central and Western Africa, where they feed upon the wild fruits which grow there so abundantly.
Sometime quite a number of these nests may be seen close together, the chimpanzees having built a kind of village for themselves in the midst of the forest.
Two kinds of chimpanzees are known, namely the common chimpanzee, which is by far the more plentiful of the two, and the bald chimpanzee, which has scarcely any hair on the upper part of its head.
The Chimpanzees have arms which reach below the knees; they have large thumbs and great toes, their hands are longer than their feet, and their hair is black, while the skin of the face is pale.
The chimpanzeesare keen, observant animals, and Crowley inherited the full gifts of his race.
The big chimpanzees and the gorillas are said to fight the formidable leopard in that manner.
Skulls of chimpanzees were just now in great demand, as mondas were to be made with them in many villages, for they were fully persuaded that if they had them people from the land of the white man would come and settle among them.
Another canoe contained the skins and skeletons of several gorillas, the skins of chimpanzees and other animals, besides a great many insects, butterflies, and shells.
Rabolo dug in the sandy soil of the prairie near where the creeper grew, and turned up more skulls of chimpanzees and broken pieces of pottery.
More than a year ago I made some splendid records of the sounds of the two chimpanzees in the Cincinnati collection.
For instance, in 1879, two very intelligent chimpanzees were on exhibition at Central Park.
Young chimpanzees chuckle and smile when one they love returns to them after an absence of some little time.
In central Africa the chimpanzeesassume more or less marked gorilla-like traits.
Still the large size and prominence of the ears proclaim that both "Mafuka" and "Johanna" were chimpanzees and not gorillas.
Chimpanzees exhibit great docility in confinement, where, however, they seldom survive for any great length of time.
I have seen and heard the chimpanzees at the Zoological Gardens laugh like children at the approach of their friend and my friend, the distinguished naturalist, Mr. George Boulenger, F.
Considering the number of sokos or chimpanzees in this great forest, it is rather a curious fact that not one of the Expedition saw one alive.
Some chimpanzeeshave been discovered in a grove which fills a deep hollow in the Baregga Hills.
The howling choirs of the macaws and the drum concerts of the chimpanzees are still better and unmistakable instances of collective emotional expression.
Koehler, working in the Canary Islands, has, according to information which I have received from him by letter, made certain experiments with orang utans and chimpanzees similar to those of Hobhouse and Haggerty.
Four years ago I called attention to the habit of the twochimpanzees in the Cincinnati Gardens.
They were so persistent in poking my chimpanzees with sticks, that I had to keep a boy on watch all the time to prevent it; but the boy could not be trusted, so I had to watch him.
It is the same principle amplified by which nations hold the right of territory, but nations often violate this right, and so do chimpanzees when not held in check by something more potent than a sense of justice.
It is well known to the natives that the chimpanzees beat on some sonorous body, which they call a drum.
Chimpanzees are not usually so playful or funny as monkeys, but they have a certain degree of mirth in their nature, and at times display a marked sense of humour.
There were but few articles of food that he and Moses liked in common, and therefore they had no occasion to quarrel; but they never played together or cultivated any friendly terms as the chimpanzees did among themselves.
I observed that my own chimpanzees made this sound exactly the same as that I heard in the forest, except that it was less in volume, which was due to their age.
Glave described to me the same thing, as being done by the chimpanzees in the Middle Congo basin.
During my residence in the cage I did not see so many chimpanzees as I saw of gorillas, but from those I did see it was an easy matter to determine that they were much less shy and timid than the gorilla.
I may here mention that the few chimpanzees that reach the civilised parts of the world are but a small percentage of the great number that are captured.
I may remark here, that I have known at least five or six chimpanzees that were fond of beer, and would drink it until they were drunk whenever they could get it.
Orangs male and female are even seen alone, and young ones together without parents; gorillas are seen in family parties; chimpanzees in families, and occasionally three or four families in company.
Gorillas have also been said, upon very slight evidence, to be polygamous; chimpanzees and orangs seem to be monogamous.
It is said that gorillas and chimpanzees have been seen together in a large band.
But the large anthropoids live only in familiesaEuro"the male orang being even of a somewhat solitary habit; three or four families of chimpanzees may for a time associate together.
I have, as yet, seen but few chimpanzees since I have taken up my abode at Fort Gorilla, but I hope to enjoy some private interviews with them before I decamp.
The chimpanzees have a similar fete, and set to similar music.
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