Ape

Ape, a term variously used for the anthropoid apes, for the tailless or the short-tailed apes, and for monkeys generally; or specifically for the majority of monkeys, with the exception of the anthropoids on the one hand, and the lemurs, or semi-apes, on the other. Thus defined, the apes include (a) the Arctopithecini, or marmosets, small furry South-American forms like squirrels—e.g. Hapale and Midas; (b) the Platyrrhini, or broad-nosed New-World apes, almost always quadripedal, without cheek-pouches or callosities on the hips—e.g. Mycetes or howling-monkey, Cebus or Capuchin, Ateles or spider-monkey, Pithecia, Chrysopitrix or squirrel-monkey, and Nyctipithecus; (c) the majority of the Catarrhini, or Old-World monkeys, with a narrower partition between the nostrils, and never with prehensile tail. Only the lower forms, or Cynomorpha, are included in this classification, the higher Anthropoids being separated (after Hartmann) to form along with man the higher family Primarii. The Cynomorpha (dog-like) include Baboons (Cynocephalus), Mandrills (Papio), Macacus, the Barbary Ape (Inuus), Cercopithecus, Colobus, the Sacred Monkey (Semnopithecus), &c. See MONKEYS, ANTHROPOID APES.