animals

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Its upper-arm

and thigh are short in proportion to the
forearm and the shin. It has no projecting navel, but only a
hardness in the ordinary locality of the navel. Its upper part is much
larger than its lower part, as is the case with quadrupeds; in fact,
the proportion of the former to the latter is about as five to
three. Owing to this circumstance and to the fact that its feet
resemble hands and are composed in a manner of hand and of foot: of
foot in the heel extremity, of the hand in all else-for even the
toes have what is called a 'palm':-for these reasons the animal is
oftener to be found on all fours than upright. It has neither hips,
inasmuch as it is a quadruped, nor yet a tail, inasmuch as it is a
biped, except nor yet a tal by the way that it has a tail as small
as small can be, just a sort of indication of a tail. The genitals
of the female resemble those of the female in the human species; those
of the male are more like those of a dog than are those of a man.