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Title: Apes and monkeys; their life and language
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Garner, Richard Lynch, 1848-1920
Subjects: Monkeys Speech Sound production by animals
Publisher: Boston and London, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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w hours ago. The stars are shining, but the foliage ofthe forest is so dense, that one can only see here and therea star peeping through the tangled boughs overhead. Ihear some little waif among the dead leaves, but what it isor what it wants can only be surmised. Another hour has passed, and I retire for the night. Thesounds of nocturnal birds are fewer now. I hear a strange,tremulous sound from the boughs of the bushes near thecaoe. The leaves are vibrating. The sound ceases andagain begins at intervals. I listen with attention, for it isa singular sound. It is the movement of a huge pythonin search of birds. He reaches out his head, stretches hisneck, grasps the bough of a slender bush, releases his coilfrom another, and by contraction draws his slimy bodyforward. The pliant bough yields to his heavy weight.The abrasion causes it to tremble and the leaves to quake. I fall asleep and rest in comfort, while the dew that hasfallen upon the leaves gathers itself into huge drops ; their
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PREPARING FOR THE NIGHT(From a Photograph.) 84 APES AND MONKEYS weight bends the leaves, and they fall from their loftyplace, striking with a sharp, popping sound the big leavesfar below them. The hours fly by ; but in the stillness ofearly morning is heard a most unearthly scream. It is thevoice of a king gorilla. He makes every leaf in the foresttremble with the sound of his piercing shrieks. Thus another night is erased from the calendar of timeand another da) begins. The dawn awakes to life theteeming forest, and all its denizens again go forth to jointhe universal chase for food. All of the incidents here cited are true in every detail,but they did not occur every dav, nor did all of them occuron the same dav, as might be inferred from the manner inwhich they are related. But this recital gives a fair idea ofthe daily routine in the bosom of the great forest, althoughthis is a mere glimpse of the scenes of life in the jungle.Bv going out for a da) or two at a time, hunting on the

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