Finally, as regards the brain and nervous system. In the man-shaped
Apes the brain is smaller as compared with the nerves which proceed
from it than in man; and the brain proper is smaller relatively to the
cerebellum than in man. The convolutions, the fissures, and eminences
of the brain are generally less complex, and those of the two sides
or hemispheres of the brain are more symmetrical than in man. The
sides of the brain or the hemispheres are rounder and deeper in man,
and the proportions of their lobes to one another are different. Some
convolutions and fissures present in man are less perfectly formed, but
still exist in the Apes, and the cerebellum is not covered entirely in
the Hylobates, but it is in the other Anthropomorpha.
CHAPTER V.
THE DOG-SHAPED MONKEYS[25]--1. SEMNOPITHECUS--2. COLOBUS.
General Characteristics of the Monkeys of the Old
World--Distinguished from the Apes by Length of the Hinder Limbs
and presence of Tails--Divided into those with and those without
Cheek-pouches--Use of the Cheek-pouches--The two Genera of
Pouchless Monkeys--THE SACRED MONKEYS, or Semnopitheci--Derivation
of the Name--First Discovery--Ape Worship in India--General
Description--Limited to Asia--THE SIMPAI--Its Locality and
Appearance--THE BUDENG--Hunted for their Fur--Its Colour and
Appearance--THE LONG-NOSED MONKEY--Reason of the Name--Quaint
Appearance of the Young--Anatomical Peculiarities--Their First
Appearance in Europe--Description of the Nose--Peculiar Formation
of the Stomach--Bezoars--THE HOONUMAN MONKEY--The Sacred Monkey
of the Hindoos--Legends about it--THE DOUC MONKEY--Its Appearance
and Habitat--THE BLACK-LEGGED DOUC--Anatomical Peculiarities--THE
CROWNED MONKEY--THE RED MONKEY--THE SUMATRA MONKEY--THE
WHITE-BEARDED MONKEY--Found in Ceylon--Its Intelligence--THE
GREAT WANDEROO--Other Ceylonese Monkeys--THE GENUS COLOBUS, or
Thumbless Monkeys--Description of the Hand and Wrist--Different
Varieties--COLOBUS VERUS--COLOBUS GUEREZA--Their Habitat and
Peculiarities--Fossil Semnopitheci.
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