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In his brief report he expresses especial interest in the possibility of educating this "genius among apes" to the use of language. A chimpanzee named Consul was observed several years ago by Hirschlaff , and his tricks were interestingly described from the pedagogical standpoint. Similar in character is Shepherd's brief description of the stage behavior of Peter and Consul, both chimpanzees.
He said casually, "She's an enough-sight better-looking specimen than her husband. However does it happen that the best-looking women are always caught by that sort of chimpanzees? How did she ever happen to marry 'Gene, anyhow?" The other man answered, literally. "I don't know how she did happen to marry him. She don't come from around here.
Why, I shan't get a wink for thinking of the big chimpanzees; and as for eating any supper now, why, my appetite has completely gone." "Stuff!" cried Uncle Paul, pressing the lad's arm to his side. "Rodd, my boy, we must cork a bottle or two and throw them overboard to-morrow, and then have a little practice with bullets in our guns.
Then the gorillas, chimpanzees, gibbons, orang-outangs and other apes; the baboons and other monkeys; and the lemurs and man were brothers and sisters, or otherwise closely related, and all were descended immediately or nearly so from a common ancestor lower than any. Where is the comfort or gain?
There are eight Europeans here, and thirteen thousand natives: I should not care to be in Nefta on the day when the Senoussi are to realize their long-deferred hopes. All the same, it is a relief not to hear the eternal gossip of employes or to see the soldiers loitering at street corners, like dressed-up chimpanzees.
But all the remainder of the monkey tribe the chimpanzees, the sajous, the sakis, the mandrills, the baboons, and so on are sociable in the highest degree. They live in great bands, and even join with other species than their own. Most of them become quite unhappy when solitary.
These are great doings, but really no greater than his small doings, for the least of these is just as impossible for other earthly creatures as are an Alpine tunnel or a battleship. A large convention of chimpanzees could not combine to make one pin or one sleeve-button, if they tried.
They ran along upon a rafter, peering down through the damp and the steam; and as old Durham's architects had not built the killing room for the convenience of the hoisters, at every few feet they would have to stoop under a beam, say four feet above the one they ran on; which got them into the habit of stooping, so that in a few years they would be walking like chimpanzees.
The playfulness of the tailed apes and the mutual attachment which reigns in the families of chimpanzees also are familiar to the general reader.
If the Orang fights with its hands, the Gibbons and Chimpanzees with their teeth, the Gorilla may, probably enough, do either or both; nor is there anything to be said against either Chimpanzee or Gorilla building a nest, when it is proved that the Orang-Utan habitually performs that feat.
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