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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
74
CHAPTER
X.
The
Capuchin
Vocabulary--What
I
have
Found--What
I
Foresee
in
it.
Up
to
this
time
I
have
been
able
to
determine
with
a
fair
degree
of
certainty
nine
words
or
sounds
belonging
to
Capuchins,
some
of
which
sounds
are
so
inflected
as
to
have
two
or
three
different
meanings,
I
think.
The
sound
which
I
have
translated
food
and
found
to
have
a
much
wider
meaning,
long
perplexed
me,
because
I
found
it
used
under
so
many
conditions
and
had
not
been
able
to
detect
any
difference
of
modulation.
I
find
one
form
of
this
sound
used
for
food
in
general,
but
when
modulated
in
a
certain
way
seems
to
specify
the
kind
of
food.
I
observed
that
this
sound
seemed
to
be
a
salutation
or
peacemaking
term
with
them,
which
I
attributed
to
the
fact
that
food
was
the
central
thought
of
every
monkey's
life,
and
that
consequently
that
word
would
naturally
be
the
most
important
of
his
whole
speech.
During
the
past
winter,
I
found
that
another
modulation
of
this
word
expressed
a
wish
to
obtain
a
thing,
and
appeared
to
me
to
be
almost
equivalent
to
the
verb
"give,"
when
used
in
the
imperative
mood,
something
like
this,
"Give
me
that."
I
have
succeeded
a
great
number
of
times,
by
the
use
of
this
word,
in
inducing
McGinty
to
give
me
a
part
of
his
food,
and
on
many
occasions
to
hand
me
from
his
cage
a
ball,
a
club,
or
some
such
thing
that
I
had
given
him
to
play
with.
Under
suitable
conditions,
I
could
soon
determine
to
what
extent
these
inflections
control
their
actions,
but
with
the
surroundings
of
a
zoological
garden
the
task
is
very
difficult.
However,
I
am
quite
satisfied
that
the
sound
which
I
have
translated
food
is
shaded
by
them
into
several
kindred
meanings.
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