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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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he African jungle, where I went in order to watchthe denizens of the forest when free from all restraint. Having for several years devoted much time to the studyof the speech and the habits of monkeys in captivity, Iformulated a plan of going to their native haunts to studythem under more favorable conditions. In the course of my labors up to that time, I had foundthat monkeys of the highest physical types have also highertypes of speech than those of the inferior kinds. In ac-cordance with this fact, it was logical to infer that in theanthropoid apes — they being next to man in the scale ofnature — would be found the faculty of speech developedin a higher degree than in the monkeys. The chief objectof my study was to learn the lanofuasre of animals. Thegreat apes appeared to be the best subjects for that pur-pose, so I turned my attention to them. The gorilla wassaid to be the most nearly like man, and the chimpanzee 60 £ >3 Ov m ? > s h w O p r « > — co O >CD ooz
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62 APES AND MONKEYS next. There were none of the former in captivity, andbut few of the latter ; and those few were kept under con-ditions that forbade all efforts to do anything in the lineof scientific study of their speech. As the gorilla and thechimpanzee could both be found in the same section oftropical Africa, that region was selected as the best fieldof operation ; and, in order to carry out the task assumed,I prepared for a journey thither. The locality chosen was along the equator and about twodegrees south of it. This region is infested with fevers,insects, serpents, and wild beasts of divers kinds. Toignore such dangers would be folly ; but there was no wayto see these apes in their freedom, except to go and liveamong them. To lessen in a degree the dangers incurredby such an adventure, I devised a cage of steel wire woveninto a lattice with a mesh one inch and a half wide. Thiswas made in twenty-four panels, each three feet and threeinches square, set in frames of narrow

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