The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-02-12
AN EDUCATED ORANG-OUTANG

Ham, Jr., the Pet of the Baltimore Zoo.
 Nam, jr, the educated orang-outang of the Zoo, was taken before, the Johns
 Hopkins medical society in the assembly
 rooms at Johns Hopkins hospital. Doc
 tors and students who were present
 were much interested in the little ani-
 mal, and shook hands with him. Ow- ing to length of the program which was
 presented before the society there was
 not time enough for close anatomical
 examination of the strange animal
 Dr. Clement A. Penrose, 413 North
 Charles street, took the animal from
 the zoo to the hospital, being accompan-
 jed by Hams trainer, Capt. Frederic D'Osta, and by Louis J. Berch, repre-
 senting Frank c. Bostock. Dr. Penrose | is a close student of zoology, and was
 especially struck with the value to his
 profession of view of the strange anil
 nal which so much resembles man in | ite, anatomy. He introduced Ham by 1 saying:-
 This interesting little creature was captured in July, 1898, by his owner, Capt. D'Osta, on the island of Borneo
 about 200 miles up the Chimpan river The mother was also taken, but died
 about eight days later. The father
 which was about feet inches in night, escaped. The little one was in- jured in the arm from falling from the
 tree which was cut down.
 | Ham, Jr., is now 21a years old, has cut all his first teeth, is very affection ate in his disposition and conveys his wishes by guttural sounds and signs. He eats oatfmeal toast and sweetened water for breakfast, meat once day, and after his act at night has a Welsh rarebit. He takes cold very easily: he has had pneumonia. He is inclined to constipation and is then medicated like human being. He is washed every day with alcohol; twice week with cod liver oil and once week with milk.
 "The orang-outang Malayan for man of the woods, mios, simia satyrus, fam fly simidae, belongs with the gibbons of eastern Asia, the chimpanzee and goyil- la of western Africa, to the group of anthropomorphia, or manlike apes It inhabite the wooded swan1py lowlands of Borneo and Sumatra. In a wild state the animal is a vegetable eater and ar- borial in it's habits, building rude shel- | ters in the trees.
 "The male attains q stature of 5b | feet or more, with reach of arms of | 71a feet; the relative proportion of | arms to legs, is therefore, much greater than in man. The erect attitude is diffi- | cult, constrained and not ordinarily as- stunned. In trees it displays great agili- ty. 'The hands and feet are long, with bent knuckles so that the soles of the | feet and hands do not strike the ground The big. toe and thumb are quite short In comparison with the other digits.
 "The face, hands and feet are naked and the fur is scanty and thin. of a brownish or auburn color The orang possesses great strength, and accord- ing to some authorities if wounded is ! very dangerous animal. The adults have well-marked warty prominences 1n both cheks, but no cheek pouches 'or food.
 'The skeleton of the orang has in the ose lumbar curve resemblance to that If child. In the chimpanzee and go- lila 1t is more like the adult human be- ng. The orang has 12 ribs, whereas he cbimpanzee and gorilla, unlike man lave B, and the gibbons IA. The thor tx is wide and flat, and the sternum nay ossify from double series of longitudinal centers, as sometimes oc urs in man.
 ''The orang's skull has greater brain apacity than the chimpanzee or goril- a, and owing to the smallness of the 1 row ridge, the forehead is better seen The nasal bone is fiat, and none of these pes have an anterior nasal spine. This orms the bridge of the nose. The scap-