Note 47 — ON STEPPES AND DESERTS.
Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn translation
p. 20—“The rain-foreboding howl of the bearded ape.”
Some hours before the commencement of rain, the melancholy cries of various apes, as Simia seniculus, Simia beelzebub, &c., fall on the ear like a storm raging in the distance. The intensity of the noise produced by such small animals can only be explained by the circumstance that one tree often contains a herd of seventy or eighty apes. I have elsewhere spoken of the laryngeal sac, and the ossification of the larynx of these animals.[HH]