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Chimpanzee

a name formerly applied to more than one of the larger manlarger man shaped apes, but properly belonging to the Troglodytes niger, a native of the equatorial parts of western Africa. Its associate in the genus troglodytes is the gorilla. The face is nearly hairless, the skin a dirty yellow ochre, teeth beautifully white, hair black and long. In the chimpanzee the arms are longer than the hind limbs, and when the animal is erect CHINA they reach below the knee. They are not, however, proportionately so long as in the gibbons and orangs. Its height is about five feet. The look is very much that of a very old child. In habits it is CHINA of Central Asia. In form it approaches to a square, and it covers a surface, including dependencies, of nearly 4,000,000 square miles. It is inhabited by at least 325,000,000 of the human race, living CHIMPANZEE gentle and amiable, and easily makes under the same government, ruled by the friends.

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