Introduction to zoology; a guide to the study of animals, for the use of secondary schools; Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty, 1866- Subjects: Zoology Publisher: New York, Macmillan company

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Identifier: introductiontozo00dave Title: Introduction to zoology; a guide to the study of animals, for the use of secondary schools; Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty, 1866- Subjects: Zoology Publisher: New York, Macmillan company London, Macmillian and co., ltd. Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library
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Text Appearing Before Image: FIG. 301. — Syuotus, an insectivorous bat. After Vogt and Specht. penetrated into the air to prey on the flying insects. Notall bats are insectivorous, however, for certain Old Worldbats feed on fruits. Our commonest species are the littlebrown bats (with a nearly fuiiess wing), and the red bat(with patches of fur on the wing membrane). The Primates2 are of interest because we ourselves areplaced in this category together with certain other animalsthat have attained a less lofty station. The lowest Pri-mates are the lemurs, found chiefly in Madagascar. Thesehave an arboreal habit, and feed on fruits, leaves, and , hand ; irTepov, wing. 2 primus, the first. 330 ZOOLOGY small birds and insects. Next higher come the Americanmarmosets, the howling monkeys, and the flat-nosed, pre-hensile-tailed American apes; still higher are the small-nosed, nonprehensile-tailed apes, including the baboons, Text Appearing After Image: FIG. 305. — Simla satyrus, the orang-utan, in breadfruit tree. From aphotograph of a group, in the Field Columbian Museum. mandrills, and macaques. Finally, come the tailless, man-like apes, found exclusively in the Old World- -the gib-bons, orangs (Fig. 305), chimpanzee, and the gorilla.The two latter are nearest to man, but one cannot sayone is the nearer. For, while the chimpanzee approaches THE MOUSE AND ITS ALLIES 331 man more closely in facial appearance and in intelligence,the gorilla is more man-like in the size and complexity ofthe brain and in its habit of walking on the ground. Thereis no reason to doubt that mans species came off from theanthropoid apes ; the recent discovery, in Java, of a fossilform (Pithecanthropus erectus) intermediate between manand the man-like apes, is a strong additional piece of evi-dence. This differentiation of mans species probablybegan in late tertiary times.