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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Savage and Wyman, Observations on the external characters and habits of the troglodytes Niger, Geoff. And on its organization. CUL-DAR189.124. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2022. RN2

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR189 contains material for Darwin's book Expression of the emotions.

Thomas S. Savage and Jeffries Wyman. 1843-1844. Observations on the external characters and habits of the troglodytes Niger, Geoff; And on its organization. Boston Journal of Natural History 4: 362-386.

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Boston Journ of Nat Hist. vol. IV. 1843-44. p. 365

Savage & Wyman on Trog. niger or Chimpanzee - lips protruded into a tube & utter a whoo sound expression of joy & alarm. - in the young "the eyebrows strongly contracted" when crying with mouth widely open.

p. 366 When walking rest on knuckles - Cuticle much thickened

383 They crack in wild state a fruit like a walnut with stones

They bite when attacked

384 are generally seen in pairs

[Expression, p. 143.]

(see Rengger about Orangs use (p. 39) finger to [remove] skin

[Rengger, Naturgesch. der Säugethiere von Paraguay, 1830.]

(~~Man~~ & Expression)

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