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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
92
Some
months
ago
I
made
a
record
of
the
voice
of
the
great
Anubis
baboon,
in
Philadelphia.
I
did
not
expect
to
find
in
him
an
elevated
type
of
speech;
but
my
purpose
was
to
compare
it
with
other
Simian
sounds,
to
see
if
I
could
not
establish
a
series
of
steps
in
the
quality
of
vocal
sounds
which
would
coincide
with
certain
other
characters.
I
had
found
by
the
study
of
certain
cranial
forms
that
certain
vocal
types
conformed
to
certain
skulls,
and
were
as
much
a
conformation
thereof
as
are
the
cerebral
hemispheres.
I
then
believed,
and
have
had
no
cause
since
to
recede
from
it,
that
the
vocal
powers
were
correctly
measured
by
the
gnathic
index;
that
the
mind
and
voice
were
commensurate;
and
that
as
the
cranio-facial
angle
widens
the
voice
degrades
in
quality
and
scope.
In
man,
I
find
the
highest
vocal
type,
and
just
as
we
descend
in
the
cranial
scale,
the
vocal
type
descends
into
sounds
less
flexible,
less
capable,
and
less
musical.
These
deductions
apply
only
to
mammals;
among
birds,
insects,
&c.,
a
different
order
may
prevail.
[Sidenote:
RECORDS
OF
LIONS]
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