In orangs the incomplete horizontal divisions seem to begin, as a rule, in the anterior part, and end at or near the middle of the anterior border of the parietal.
The Orangs have arms which reach to the ankles in the erect position of the animal; their thumbs and great toes are very short, and their feet are longer than their hands.
Of seventeen Orangs examined by Mr. Wallace, the largest was 4 ft.
The young Orangs seem to remain unusually long under their mother's protection, probably in consequence of their slow growth.
He never tried to bite (though Orangs will bite one another), his great weapons of offence and defence being his hands.
Only once I saw two half-grown Orangs on the ground in a dry hollow at the foot of the Simunjon hill.
When I could get out again, I determined to take a trip up a branch of the Simunjon River to Semabang, where there was said to be a large Dyak house, a mountain with abundance of fruit, and plenty of Orangs and fine birds.
Strange to say, however, several persons declare that they have measured Orangs of a much larger size.
On the whole, therefore, I think it will be allowed, that up to this time we have not the least reliable evidence of the existence of Orangs in Borneo more than 4 feet 2 inches high.
Three days after I had shot this one and lost it, Charles found three small Orangs feeding together.
The orangs seemed to have no idea of what was going on at the foot of the tree, and they were pitched out.
Asia, the orangs of Borneo and Sumatra, the gorillas of W.
Each of these apes resembles man most in some one physical characteristic: the gibbons in the formation of the teeth, the orangs in the brain-structure, the gorillas in size, and the chimpanzees in the sigmoid flexure of the spine.
It was feeding on succulent shoots by the water-side: a fact which surprised the professor, for his inquiries and experience had hitherto taught him that orangs never eat such food except when starving.
The hunt, we need scarcely say, was abruptly terminated, and immediate preparations were made for conveying the wounded man and the two orangs to the Dyak village.
It was break of dawn next morning when our hunters started, bearing their wounded comrade and the dead orangs with them.
Why, then, should not the primitive theatre of a nation of men have been circumscribed within similar boundaries, and from the beginning have been as independent as the chimpanzee of Guinea, or the orangs of Borneo and Sumatra?
In young Orangs similarly preserved, on the other hand, the spinal column is either straight, or even concave forwards, throughout the lumbar region.
The old male orangs formed a ring and beat off the dogs until the females and young could escape, and then retreated.
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.
The appearance of dejection in young orangs and chimpanzees, when out of health, is as plain and almost as pathetic as in the case of our children.
The lips of young orangs and chimpanzees are protruded, sometimes to a wonderful degree, under various circumstances.
Both orangsand chimpanzees, when a little more angered, protrude their lips greatly, and make a harsh barking noise.
Orangs are often to be seen in zooelogical gardens, although they are so delicate that they do not thrive well in captivity.
As a general rule, orangs seem far too lazy to be at all savage.
The Dyaks tell of old Orangs which have not only lost all their teeth, but which find it so troublesome to climb that they maintain themselves on windfalls and juicy herbage.
Three chimps out of every five are good for training, but not more than two orangs out of five can be satisfactorily developed.
One of our later and largest orangs made a specialty of twisting the straw of his bedding into a rope six or seven feet long, then throwing it over his trapeze bar and swinging by it, forward and back.
After a close personal acquaintance with about forty captive orangs of various sizes, I am convinced that the facts do not warrant that conclusion.
Desiring that several of our orangs should perform in public, we instructed the primate keepers to proceed along certain lines and educate them to that idea.
Among the twenty or more orangs which up to 1922 have been exhibited in the Zoological Park, two stand out with special prominence, by reason of their unusual mental qualities.
Young orangs under two years of age often whine, or shriek or scream with anger, like excited human children, but with their larger growth that vocal power seems to leave them.
Without any great amount of labor, and with no real difficulty, ourorangs were trained to perform the following simple acts: 1.
In playing, young chimps, orangs or monkeys seize each other and wrestle, fall, and roll over and over, indefinitely.
Orangs captured when fully adult exhibit the most tiger-like ferocity, and are wholly intractable.
Orangs love to turn somersaults, and some individuals are so persistent about it as to wear the hair off their backs, disfigure their beauty, and disgust their keepers.
The Orangs have now disappeared from Continental India, and even, we are assured, from Java, so that their chief habitats at present are Borneo and Sumatra; and here too they are few in number.
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.
The parent orangs were in sight on the trees beyond, but made no demonstrations, although they saw the young one crawling and swinging on and around the wagon.
While they fear to encounter the grown animals, they will attack the young, and the orangs seem to have the instinct of danger from that source born in them.
It seems to share with man a shuddering fear of snakes, although orangs have no part in making Kentucky famous.
He is also credited with fighting with his teeth, as well as his hands, biting his antagonist, as the Orangs and the Chimpanzees do.
The Orangs are large and heavy in build, with the head set on a very thick neck, the hair long and directed forward, and the abdomen round and protuberant.
As already observed, the Orangs have none of the marvellous agility of the Gibbons.
The heel, which in the Orangs is small, is in the Gorilla strongly developed, on which account it can easily stand erect.
It was feeding on succulent shoots by the waterside: a fact which surprised the professor, for his inquiries and experience had hitherto taught him that orangs never eat such food except when starving.
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