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The Speech of Monkeys
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R. L. Garner
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I
secured
a
good
record
of
that
part
of
his
speech
which
was
made
when
near
me
at
the
front
of
the
cage,
but
the
remarks
made
while
at
the
window
were
not
so
well
recorded,
yet
they
were
audible,
and
I
reproduced
them
on
the
phonograph
at
a
subsequent
visit.
My
opinion
was
that
the
sound
he
uttered
while
at
the
window
must
allude
in
some
way
to
the
state
of
the
weather,
and
this
opinion
was
confirmed
by
the
fact
that
on
a
later
occasion,
when
I
repeated
the
record
to
him,
the
weather
was
fair;
but
when
the
machine
repeated
those
sounds
which
he
had
uttered
at
the
window
on
the
day
of
the
storm,
it
would
cause
him
to
turn
away
and
look
out
of
the
window;
while
at
the
other
part
of
the
record
he
evinced
but
little
interest,
and,
in
fact,
seemed
rather
to
avoid
the
phonograph
as
though
the
sounds
suggested
something
which
he
disliked.
I
am
quite
sure
that
the
remarks
which
he
made
to
me
at
the
front
of
the
cage
were
a
complaint
of
some
kind,
and,
from
its
intonation
and
the
manner
in
which
it
was
delivered,
I
believed
that
it
was
an
expression
of
pain.
It
occurred
to
me
that
the
state
of
the
weather
might
have
something
to
do
with
his
feelings,
and
that
he
was
conscious
of
this
fact,
and
desired
to
inform
me
of
it.
About
a
year
from
that
time,
I
became
quite
intimate
with
a
feeble
little
monkey,
which
is
described
elsewhere
by
the
name
of
Pedro,
and
of
whose
speech
I
made
a
good
record.
The
sounds
of
his
speech
so
closely
resembled
those
made
by
Dago,
that
I
was
not
able
to
see
that
they
differed
in
any
respect,
except
in
loudness.
Unfortunately,
the
cylinders
containing
Dago's
record
had
been
broken
in
shipping,
and
I
was
therefore
unable
to
compare
the
two
by
analysis;
but
the
sounds
themselves
resembled
in
a
striking
degree,
and
the
manner
of
delivery
was
not
wholly
unlike,
except
that
Pedro
did
not
assume
the
same
pose
nor
emphasise
them
with
the
same
gestures.
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