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VERY LIKE a MAN.
Points of Resemblance Between the
Orang Outang and the Human Crea-

Points of Resemblance Between til
| Orang Outang and the Human Crea
ture.
Ham, Jr., the educated oraug-outan
of the Zoo, was taken before the John
Hopkins Medical society In the assem-
bly, rooms at Johns Hopkins hospita
| Doctors and students who were presen
We're much interested in the little, ami
| NAL and shook hands with him. OWNS
| to the length Of the programme whicl
was presented before the society Their
was not time enough for close ana
tomical examination of the strange ami
NAL
Dr.. Clement A. Pensose, .413 Nortl
Zoo to the hospital being accompanied
by Hams captor and trainer Captain
Frederic DOsta, and by Mr.. Louis j
Berch, representing Mr.. Frank G. Bos
took Dr. Penrose Is a close student o.
zoology, and was especially struck with
the value to his profession of a view o.
the strange animal which SO much re-
sembles man in Its anatomy. File in.
troduced Ham by saying.
This interesting little creature was
captured in July, 1898, by his owner
Captain D'Osta, on the Island of Bornec
about two hundred miles up the Chin
pan river. The mother was also taken
but died about enght days later. The
father which was about five feet eight
inches in height, escaped. The little
one was injured in the arm from falling
from the tree which was cut down.
Ham Jr., is now two and one half
yeras DID, has cut all his first teeth, Is
very affectionate In his disposition and
conveys his wishes by cultural sounds
and signs. He eats oatmeal, toast and
sweetened water for breakfast, meat
once a day, and after his act at night
has a Welsh rarebit Ham takes cold
very easily has had pneumonia. He Is
inclined to constipation and Is then
medicated like human being. He Is
wsahed every day with alcohol; twice
week with cod-liver oil and once week
with milk.
1.-THE orang- outang, Malayan for man
of the woods, mics, smia satyrus, fam-
ly simidae, belongs with gibbons of
eastern Asia, the chimpanzee and godil-
la of western Africa, to the group an
thropomorphla, or manlike apes. 1t in
habits the wooded, swampy lowlands of
Borneo and Sumatra. In wild state
the animal Is vegetable eater and ar
borial In it's habits, building rude shell
ters in the trees.
1.-THE male attains stature of five
and one-half feet; the. relative proper
ton Of arms to legs is, therefore, much
greater than in man. The erect atti-
tude is difficult constrained and not or
dinarily assumed. In trees it displays
great agility. The hands and feet are
long, with bent knuckles, so that the
soles of the feet and hands do not strike
the ground completely. The big toe
and thumb are quite short in compari-
ion with the other digits.
THE face. hands and feet are naked,
and the fur is scanty and thin, of a
or auburn color. The orang
possesses great strength, and, accord
ng to some authorities, if wounded is
very dangerous animal The adults
rave well-marked warty prominence on
both cheeks, but no cheek pouches for
God.
THE skeleton of the orang has in the
Dose lumbar curve a resemblance to
hat of a child. I'm the chimpanzee and
GORILLA it is more like the adult human
,eing. The orang has twelve ribs,
whereas the chimpanzee and gorilla, |
mike man, have thirteen, and the glib
IONS fourteen. The thorax is wide and |
at, and the sternum may ossify from |
double series of longitudinal centers, |
s sometimes occurs in man.
1.-THE orang's skull has greater brain |
apacity than the chimpanzee or gorilla, |
nd owing to the smallness of the brow |
idge the forehead is better seen. The |
asal bone Is fiat, and none of These |
pes have an anterior nasal spine
Thsi forms the bridge of the nose.) |
he scapuia or shoulder bone of the |
rang is like that of man; the long,
traight clavicle. or collar bone, Is less
Ike mans than in the case of the CHM
anzee or gorilla. There are nine wrist
+ carpal bones in the orang, as in man,
My eight in the gorilla and chimpan-
ee. the magnum there being absent.
ITO briefly summarize, the orang
Jmes nearest to man in the number of
BIS the form of the cerebral hemis-
heres and their convolutions, but in
lie shape of the body, size and relative
roportions of the limbs to the. body,
ley differ more than the chimpanzee
: gorilla"
Captain D'Osta said afterward that
, doubted the savage qualities of the