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n. - Large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits.

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  • However, Herbert declared it to be an orangoutang.
  • It was an orangoutang, and as such, had neither the ferocity of the gorilla, nor the stupidity of the baboon.
  • Whether this was a chimpanzee, an orangoutang, or a gorilla, he took rank among the anthropoid apes, who are so called from their resemblance to the human race.
  • According to Cuvier, the great French naturalist, the natural diet of human beings, like that of those other primates, the orangoutang, the chimpanzee, and the gorilla,...
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