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
Stories of travelers and writers often untrue, 71-72, 235-236,
261-263, 267, 268, 273
Strohm, Mr. Adolph, trader at Gaboon, 154, 158
Sumatra, 274
Threadbare story, A, 262, 273
Tornado in the jungle, 79 ff.
Translations of native reports, Literal, 269, 270
Troglodytes, 267
_Tyimba_ (village), 144
Under forest, The, 68
University of Toronto Collection, 249
Village pet, A
the children’s playmate, 175-178
understood names and commands, 179
brought water and wood, 179-180
brought persons named, 180-181
price double that of a slave, 182
Vocabularies of animals (see _Speech of Animals_; _Monkeys, Speech
of_, and _Chimpanzees, Speech of_)
Walker, Dr., revises Wilson’s lexicon of native language, 216
Wallace, Mr. Alfred R., authority on orang, 275
Webber, Mr., keeper of ape at Bellevue
his success in training, 198
Wild visitors to the cage, 75 ff., 81-82, 186-190, 252-260
did not usually evince fear, 253
retreated in good order, 253, 255, 258
Moses frightens one away, 254
a gorilla beckons, 255
a narrow escape, 256-258
an exceptional opportunity, 258-259
a brave baby, 260
a gorilla takes his own photograph, 264-265
Wilson, Dr., first missionary at Gaboon
wrote lexicon of native language, 216
Wurmb, Baron, 267
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