Apes and Monkeys: Their Life and LanguageGarner, R. L. (Richard Lynch)
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Apes and Monkeys: Their Life and Language
Garner, R. L. (Richard Lynch)
Apes; Monkeys; Sound production by animals; Speech
Etymology of native names, 232, 272
Evolution, 36
Expression (see also _Facial expression_)
defined, 13
speech a means of, 13
animals’ limit of, 13, 23
Facial expression of simians, 1, 16, 46, 47, 126, 146-147, 150, 162,
170, 182, 197, 202-204, 206, 207, 229
Falkenstein, Dr., 267
Ferocity of apes exaggerated, 229, 235-236
_Ferran Vaz_ (lake), 66, 144, 149, 219, 228, 270
_Fiote_ (tribe and language), 86, 267
Five young kulus, 207-210
Food
of chimpanzee, 106-107, 128-129, 132
of gorilla, 245-246
Ford, Dr., African traveler, 214, 217
Form, Simians’ perception of, 30, 139, 196
Fort Gorilla, 71
_Gaboon_ (town and river), 66, 153, 155, 182, 211, 214-217, 268, 272
Gaboon, Some captives at, 182 ff.
their table manners, 182-184
their love of beer, 183-184
their dexterity, 184
maladies resemble man’s, 186
Gibbon, The
order of intelligence, 4
arboreal habit, 96, 276
size and activity, 275-276
skeleton, 276
can stand erect, 276
wonderful leaping power, 276
several known species, 277
vocal qualities, 277
Glave, E. J., African traveler, 241
Goode, Rev. A. C., late missionary at Batanga, 272
Gorilla, The
order of intelligence, 4, 211, 232
resemblance to man, 60
in native haunts, 70, 71
seen from the cage, 71, 77-78, 186, 252-260
his scream and beating sound, 84, 109, 237-242
arboreal habit, 96-97, 224-225, 245
nomadic, 97, 233
habitat, 211 ff., 273, 278-279
early reports of (see references under _Early reports_)
skeleton, 218-223
described in detail, 223 ff.
cannot walk erect, 225
the “calf” as means of comparison, 227
species, 228, 274
compared with other apes and with man, 228-231
social traits and government, 231 ff.
derivation of name, 232
in council, 234
ferocity exaggerated, 235-236, 262, 273
mode of attack, 236-237
sounds wrongly attributed to, 109, 240-242
method of carrying young, 242, 259
disposition, 242, 250-251, 284
food, 245-246, 282-283
stealthiness, 253, 262
calling sound, 254
difficult to find, 260-263
only one ever brought to America, 263
a wild gorilla takes his own photograph, 264-265
care in captivity, 278 ff.
Great forest, The, 68
Guinea, Gulf of, 85, 266
Habitat
of gorilla, 211 ff., 273, 278-279
of chimpanzee, 85-87, 280
of orang, 274
of gibbon, 276
Handmann, Mr. Otto, German consul at Gaboon, 182
Hanno, 500 B.C., earliest mention of the ape, 266-267
Harris, Captain, African traveler, 217
Harvard Medical School Collection, 6
Hornaday, W. T., authority on orang, 275
Human faculties, embryo of all, exists in simians, 37
_Ikomba njina_, 232, 234, 235
_Inenga_ (lake), 218
Ingenuity of simians (see _Dexterity_)
_Izanga_ (lake), 184, 212, 223
an unhappy captive at, 184-185
an act of mercy, 185
“Jack,” 25
“Jennie,” 27
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