HOW AN ORANG-OUTANG TRAVELS.
—* It is a most interesting sight to watch an orang-outang make its way through the jungle. It walks slowly along the larger branches in a semi-erect attitude, this being apparently caused by the length of its arms and the shortness of its legs. It invariably selects those branches which intermingle with those of a neighbouring tree, on approaching which it stretches out its long arm and grasping the boughs opposite, seems first to shake them, as if to test their strength, and then deliberately swings itself across to the next branch, which it walks along as before, It does not jump or spring, as monkeys usually do, and never appears to hurry itself, unless some real danger presents. Yet, in spite of its apparent slow movements, "it gets along far quicker than a person running through the forest beneath.
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Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 50, 17 July 1906, Page 8
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143HOW AN ORANG-OUTANG TRAVELS. Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 50, 17 July 1906, Page 8
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