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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
152
Many
observations
have
already
been
made
on
the
language
of
insects,
and
much
diversity
of
opinion
prevails.
Very
little
has
been
said
about
the
details
of
their
intercourse,
but
the
consensus
of
opinion
is
that
they
must
in
some
way
communicate
among
themselves.
To
me
they
seem
to
live
within
a
world
of
their
own,
as
other
classes
of
the
animal
kingdom
do.
The
means
of
communication
used
by
mammals
could
not
be
available
among
aquatic
forms,
any
more
than
could
their
modes
of
locomotion.
Each
different
class
of
the
animal
kingdom
is
endowed
with
such
characters
and
faculties
as
best
adapt
them
to
the
sphere
in
which
they
live;
and
the
mode
of
communication
best
fitted
to
the
conditions
of
insect
life
would
be
as
little
suited
to
mammals,
perhaps,
as
the
feathers
of
a
bird
would
be
for
locomotion
in
the
realm
of
fishes.
[Sidenote:
LANGUAGE
OF
INSECTS]
I
am
aware
that
some
high
authorities
have
claimed
that
insects
communicate
by
sounds.
My
own
opinion
is
that
they
employ
a
system
of
grating
or
scratching
by
means
of
their
stigmata,
but
that
the
sound
created
thus
performs
no
function
in
the
act
of
communicating,
but
is
only
a
bi-product,
so
to
speak,
and
that
the
jarring
sensation
transmitted
through
the
air
is
the
real
means
by
which
they
understand
each
other,
possibly
somewhat
like
telegraphy,
in
which
the
sounds
are
not
modulated,
but
are
distinguished
by
their
duration
and
the
interval
between
them.
I
do
not
announce
this
as
conclusive,
but
merely
suggest
it
as
a
possible
key
to
their
mode
of
intercourse.
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