 It is a singular and very interesting sight to watch a mias making his way leisurely through the forest. He walks deliberately along some of the larger branches, in the semierect attitude which the great length of his arms and the shortness of his legs...  Journal of the American Oriental Society - Стр. 83авторы: American Oriental Society - 1897Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1856 - Страниц: 642
...making his way leisurely through the forest. He walks deliberately along the branches in the same erect attitude which the great length of his arms and the shortness of his legs give him : choosing n place where the boughs of an adjoining tree intermingle, he seizes the smaller... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1869 - Страниц: 694
...in the very midst of the swampy plains. It is a singular and very interesting sight to watch a mias making his way leisurely through the forest. He walks...knuckles, not on the palm of the hand, as we should do. He seems always to choose those branches which intermingle with an adjoining tree, on approaching which... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1869 - Страниц: 688
...swampy plains. It is a singular and very interesting sight to watch a mias making his way leisurelv through the forest. He walks deliberately along some...knuckles, not on the palm of the hand, as we should do. He seems always to choose those branches which intermingle with an adjoining tree, on approaching which... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1869 - Страниц: 360
...in the very midst of the swampy plains. It is a singular and very interesting sight to watch a Mias making his way leisurely through the forest. He walks...deliberately along some of the larger branches, in CHAP, iv.] HABITS OF THE MIAS. 59 the semi-erect attitude which the great length of his arms arid the... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1871 - Страниц: 776
...as he.'" The habits of the orang, as described by Wallace are somewhat peculiar : "In making his way through the forest, he walks deliberately along some...limbs is increased by his walking on his knuckles, and not on the palm of his hand, as we should do. He seems always to choose those branches which intermingle... | |
 | A. Romer - 1872 - Страниц: 248
...name of the Orang-Outan) making his way leisurely through the forest. He walks deliberately along the branches in the semi-erect attitude which the great length of his arms and the shortness of his legs give him : choosing a place where the boughs of an adjacent tree intermingle, he seizes the smaller... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - 1873 - Страниц: 500
...sight to watch a mias making its way leisurely through the forest. He walks deliberately along the branches, in the semi-erect attitude which the great length of his arms and the shortness of his legs give him. Choosing a place where the boughs of an adjacent tree intermingle, he seizes the smaller... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1877 - Страниц: 728
...forest. He walks deliberately along some of the larger branches, in CHAP. IT.] HABITS OF THE MIAS. 59 the semi-erect attitude which the great length of...knuckles, not on the palm of the hand, as we should do. He seems always to choose those branches which intermingle with an adjoining tree, on approaching which... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - 1879 - Страниц: 482
...profuse growth of the swampy districts. According to Mr. Wallace, " he walks deliberately along the branches, in the semi-erect attitude which the great length of his arms and the shortness of his legs give him. . . . He seizes the smaller twigs, pulls them towards him, grasps them together with those... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - Страниц: 448
...plains. It is a singular and very interesting sight to watch a Mias making his way leisurely throirgh the forest. He walks deliberately along some of the...knuckles, not on the palm of the hand, as we should do. He seems always to choose those branches which intermingle with an adjoining tree, on approaching which... | |
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