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
“Othello”
place of capture, 221
absence of humor, 244
illness and death, 247-249
with Moses, 249, 250
his speech sounds, 251
Owen, Sir Richard, writer on Africa, 215
Parrot Island, 214
Paternal instinct in animals, 100
“Pedro”
his troubles, 38
appreciation of kindness, 38
recording his sounds, 38, 39
his tale of woe, 39, 41
speech repeated to Puck, 39-41
Philadelphia Museum of Zoölogy, Specimens at, 217
Phonograph as a means of recording speech of monkeys, 15 ff.
first experiments, 16 ff.
behavior of monkeys on hearing, 16-18
speech and reply recorded, 18
Pedro’s speech recorded, 38
experiment with Puck, 39-41
Pitch of voice
in monkeys, 20, 28
in apes, 108, 109, 111-112
Platarrhini, 3
_Pongo_, 267, 269
Program, A day’s, 73 ff.
“Puck,” his perplexity on hearing phonograph, 39-41
Quality, Simians’ perception of, 30
Quantity, Simians’ perception of, 32
Reasoning power in simians, Evidences of, 16-18, 33-34, 36, 37, 105,
133, 161, 206
Records of speech sounds (see _Phonograph_)
_Rembo_ (river), 144, 218
Resemblances between simians and man
in body, 1, 2, 4-8, 60, 92, 186, 277
in speech, 20, 22-23, 116
in affections, 58-59, 173, 174
Rhesus monkey, 32
Romanes, Professor
experiments with chimpanzee, 34
experiments with “Sally,” 241
Sacrum (see _Skeleton_)
Sagittal ridge (see _Gorilla, Skeleton of_)
Sailor’s pet, A
his suit rejected, 163-165
“Sally,” 241
“Sally Jones,” 244
Savage, Dr., African traveler, 213, 214, 216
Scream of gorilla and chimpanzee, 84, 109, 237-242
_Sette Kama_ (town), 144, 212
Sheldon, Mrs. M. French, African traveler, 25
Sierra Leone, 266
Simians (see _Apes_, _Monkeys_, etc.)
wide range of types, 2
different forms described, 3
two grand divisions, how distinguished, 3
Simian speech (see _Monkeys, Speech of_, and _Chimpanzees, Speech of_)
Size of apes, 96, 190, 191, 221, 230
Skeleton, The
as basis of comparison, 4
chief point of difference, 4
sacrum, peculiarities of, 4-6, 8
vertebræ, number of, 5-6
causes of difference in sacrum and vertebræ, 6
sternum, differences in, 6, 7
skull, differences in, 8
general comparison, 7-8
of gorilla, 218-223
of gibbon, 276
Smithsonian Institution, Experiments at, 15 ff., 38
Snapshot, A unique, 264-265
Social traits and government
of chimpanzee, 99-105
of gorilla, 231 ff.
_Soko_, 270
Speech defined, 12
Speech of animals (see also _Monkeys, Speech of_, and _Chimpanzees,
Speech of_)
author’s interest in, 12
grounds of belief in, 12, 13
vocabularies limited, 13
can express what they conceive, 13, 23
development of interest, 14
Spider-monkey, 38
Stanley Pool, 216
Steckelman, Carl, African explorer, 216
Sternum (see _Skeleton_)
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