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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
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A
short
time
since
I
tried
a
novel
experiment
with
the
phonograph
and
two
black-and-tan
terriers,
mother
and
son.
The
son
was
a
notorious
talker
in
the
way
of
barking
almost
continuously
at
everything,
and
on
all
occasions
and
at
all
times,
while
the
mother
was
naturally
taciturn,
good-natured,
and
fairly
intelligent.
I
first
took
the
son
to
a
room
where
I
had
the
phonograph,
and
I
made
a
record
of
a
number
of
sounds
of
his
voice.
The
children
aided
me
in
the
experiment
by
getting
him
to
talk
for
food,
bark
at
his
image
in
the
mirror,
and
by
various
other
ways
they
induced
him
to
other
sounds
in
the
presence
of
the
phonograph.
A
few
days
later
I
had
them
bring
the
mother
to
the
same
place,
where
I
discharged
the
contents
of
my
phonograph
cylinder
in
her
presence.
She
gave
every
evidence
of
recognising
the
sounds
of
the
young
dog,
and
in
a
few
instances
responded
to
them.
She
was
naturally
perplexed
at
not
being
able
to
find
him,
and
searched
the
horn
and
various
parts
of
the
room
in
quest
of
the
young
dog.
I
delivered
to
her
at
the
same
time
the
record
of
another
dog,
to
which
she
paid
little
attention
except
by
an
occasional
growl
and
a
look
into
the
horn
to
see
what
it
meant.
She
evidently
recognised
the
sounds
of
the
young
dog
with
which
she
was
familiar
and
seemed
to
interpret
their
meanings,
whereas
the
sounds
from
the
other
cylinder
did
little
more
than
attract
her
attention.
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