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Ourang   Listen
noun
Ourang  n.  (Zool.) The orang-outang.






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"Ourang" Quotes from Famous Books



... to be no more than a unique species of the order bimana, established by Dumeril in his Analytic Zoology, page 16; and Bory de Saint Vincent thinks that the ourang-outang ought to be included in the same order if we would make ...
— The Physiology of Marriage, Part I. • Honore de Balzac

... powers. Now, it seems to me, looking to existing animals alone, that we have a very fine gradation in the intellectual powers of the Vertebrata, with one rather wide gap (not half so wide as in many cases of corporeal structure), between say a Hottentot and a Ourang, even if civilised as much mentally as the dog has been from the wolf. I suppose that you do not doubt that the intellectual powers are as important for the welfare of each being as corporeal structure; if so, I can see no difficulty in the most intellectual ...
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin



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