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Title: Apes and monkeys; their life and language
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Garner, Richard Lynch, 1848-1920
Subjects: Monkeys Speech Sound production by animals
Publisher: Boston and London, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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e male carry the young, but in a num-ber of specimens of advanced age I have seen and calledattention to the mark upon the back and sides which indi-cates that he does this. It is in the same place that theyoung one rests upon the back of the mother. In form itis like an inverted Y, with the base resting on the neck andthe prongs reaching under the arms. This mark is not oneof nature. It is the imprint of something carried there. Insome specimens the hair is worn off until the skin is almostbare. The prongs are more worn than the stem of thefigure. This is due to the fact that the abrasion is greaterupon those parts than elsewhere. I do not assert that suchis the cause, but I do assert that such is the fact. The gorilla is averse to human society. In captivity heis morose and sullen. He frets and pines for his liberty.His face appears to be incapable of expressing anythingresembling a smile, but when in repose it is not repugnant.In anger his visage depicts the savage instincts of his
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SALLY JONES (YOUNG GORILLA) CAUGHT NAPPING(From a Photograph.) 244 APES AND MONKEYS nature. He does not seem to bear captivity well, evenwhen not removed from his native climate. The longestany one of them has ever been known to live in captivitywas about three and a half years. The one shown in theaccompanying cut belonged to a trader by the name ofJones. The name of the gorilla was Sally, and I havecalled her Sally Jones. She lived with her master threeyears and a half and died of grief at his absence. The gorilla which lived with me for a time in the forestwas a sober, solemn, stoical creature, and nothing couldarouse in him a spirit of mirth. The only pastime he caredto indulge in was turning somersaults. Almost every day,at intervals of an hour or so, he would stand up for amoment, then put his head upon the ground, turn over,rise to his feet again, and look at me as if expectingmy applause. His actions in this feat were very muchlike those of a boy. He frequently repeated this a

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