Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1918 — Chimpanzee. [ARTICLE]

Chimpanzee.

The chimpanzee is a large west African ape, belonging to the anthropoid, or manlike, monkeys of the family Simiadae and suborder Anthropoidea, with dark blackish-brown hair, flesh-colored hands and feet, arms reaching to the knee, and very large ears, and like the orang in having the hair on its forearm turned backward, but differing from it in having an additional dorsal vertebra and a thirteenth pair of ribs. In its organization and form it presents a close Resemblance to man. The structure of its lower extremities enabled it to walk erect better than most of the apes, although its habits are in reality arboreal, and when, on the ground it usually goes on all fours. It feeds on fruits and nuts, lives in small societies and constructs a sort of nest among the branches of trees. The height of a full-grown male chimpanzee is about four feet. This animal is most nearly related to the gorilla. •