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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
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The
processes,
motives,
acts
and
results
are
the
same
with
man
and
ape;
the
degree
to
which
they
reason
differs,
but
the
kind
of
reason
in
both
cases
is
the
same.
I
shall
here
relate
some
instances
in
my
experience
and
leave
the
reader
to
judge
whether
reason
or
instinct
guided
the
acts
of
the
monkeys
as
I
shall
detail
them
in
the
next
few
paragraphs.
It
will
be
remembered
that
these
were
new
conditions
under
which
the
monkeys
acted.
I
taught
Nellie
to
drink
milk
from
a
bottle
with
a
rubber
nipple.
While
I
would
hold
the
bottle,
it
was
easy
for
her
to
secure
the
milk;
but
when
she
undertook
it
alone,
she
utterly
failed.
The
thing
which
puzzled
her
was
how
to
get
the
milk
to
come
up
to
her
end
of
the
bottle.
She
turned
it
in
every
way,
and
held
it
in
every
position
that
she
could
think
of,
but
the
milk
always
kept
at
the
other
end
of
the
bottle.
She
would
throw
the
bottle
down
in
despair,
and
when
she
saw
the
milk
flow
to
the
end
having
the
nipple,
she
would
go
back
and
pick
it
up,
and
try
it
again.
Poor
Nellie
worried
her
little
head
over
this,
and
again
abandoned
it
in
despair.
While
trying
to
solve
the
mystery,
she
discovered
a
new
trick.
While
the
bottle
was
partly
inverted
she
caught
hold
of
the
nipple,
and
squeezed
it.
By
this
means
she
accidentally
spurted
the
milk
into
the
faces
of
some
ladies
who
were
watching
her.
This
afforded
her
so
much
fun
that
she
could
scarcely
be
restrained,
and
while
she
remained
with
me
she
remembered
this
funny
trick,
and
never
failed
to
perform
it
when
she
was
allowed
to
do
so.
It
was
no
trouble
for
her
to
connect
the
immediate
effect
to
the
immediate
cause.
But
she
could
not
for
a
long
time
understand
that
the
position
of
the
bottle
or
the
location
of
the
milk
in
it
had
anything
to
do
with
the
trick.
In
the
course
of
time,
however,
she
learned
to
hold
the
bottle
so
that
she
could
drink
the
milk,
and
she
also
discovered
that
it
had
to
be
held
in
a
certain
position
in
order
to
play
her
amusing
trick.
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