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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
90
CHAPTER
XIII.
The
Extent
of
my
Experiments--Apes
and
Baboons--Miscellaneous
Records
of
Sound--The
Vocal
Index.
In
quest
of
the
great
secret
of
speech,
I
have
pursued
my
investigations
chiefly
in
the
direction
of
learning
one
tongue,
but
incidentally
I
have
made
many
detours,
and
I
have
recorded
the
sounds
of
many
other
forms
of
the
animal
kingdom,
besides
primates.
I
have
examined
the
phonation
of
lions,
tigers,
leopards,
cats,
dogs,
birds
of
many
kinds,
and
the
human
voice
in
speech,
music,
and
laughter.
Besides
these,
I
have
examined
various
musical
sounds,
especially
of
the
pipe
and
whistle
kinds.
More
than
a
year
ago
I
made
some
splendid
records
of
the
sounds
of
the
two
chimpanzees
in
the
Cincinnati
collection.
I
have
not
had
the
opportunity
to
study
these
apes
themselves,
as
I
desired
to
do,
since
they
are
kept
so
closely
confined
in
a
glass
house,
and
for
ever
under
the
eye
of
their
keeper,
which
conditions
are
not
favourable
to
the
best
results.
I
am
not
prepared
therefore
to
give
much
detail
concerning
their
speech;
but
from
a
careful
study
of
one
cylinder
containing
a
record
of
their
sounds,
I
was
able
to
discern
as
many
as
seven
different
phones,
all
of
which
come
within
the
scope
of
the
human
vocal
organs.
I
learned
one
of
these
sounds,
and
on
a
subsequent
visit
to
Cincinnati
I
succeeded
in
attracting
the
attention
of
the
female,
and
eliciting
from
her
a
response.
She
would
come
to
the
lattice
door
of
the
inner
cage
by
which
I
was
standing,
and
when
I
would
utter
the
sound
she
would
press
her
face
against
the
door
of
the
cage
and
answer
it
with
a
like
sound.
The
male,
however,
did
not
appear
to
notice
it
with
any
degree
of
concern.
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