BLACK

See also:

• APE (Old Eng. ape; Dutch aap; Old Ger. a ffo; Welsh epa; Old Bohemian op; a word of uncertain origin, possibly an imitation of the animal's chatter)

APE  , a sooty, black, short-tailed, and long-faced representative of the macaques, inhabiting the island of Celebes, and generally regarded as forming a genus by itself, under the name of Cynopithecus niger, but sometimes relegated to the rank of a subgenus of Macacus . The nostrils open obliquely at some distance from the end of the snout, and the head carries a crest of long hair . There are several local races, one of which was long regarded as a separate species under the name of the Moor macaque, Macacus maurus .