animals

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

The ape

has also in its chest two teats upon poorly developed
breasts. It has also arms like man, only covered with hair, and it
bends these legs like man, with the convexities of both limbs facing
one another. In addition, it has hands and fingers and nails like man,
only that all these parts are somewhat more beast-like in
appearance. Its feet are exceptional in kind. That is, they are like
large hands, and the toes are like fingers, with the middle one the
longest of all, and the under part of the foot is like a hand except
for its length, and stretches out towards the extremities like the
palm of the hand; and this palm at the after end is unusually hard,
and in a clumsy obscure kind of way resembles a heel. The creature
uses its feet either as hands or feet, and doubles them up as one
doubles a fist.