The clay is superimposed upon a kind ofġ04 APES AND MONKEYS peat bed, which, being porous, acts as a resonance cavityand intensifies the sound. It is irregular inshape and about two feet across. Here and there in the jungle isfound a small spot of sonorous earth. It is believed that more than one family takepart in these festivities. The word does not mean dance in the senseof saltatory gyrations, but it implies more the idea of car-nival. One of the most remarkable of all the social habits ofthe chimpanzee is the kanjo, as it is called in the nativetongue. I cannot vouch for this, assuch an incident has never come within my own experience. It is said that if one ofthem is wounded the others will rescue it if possible andconvey it to a place of safety. They do not readily abandon their sick, butwhen one of them is unable to travel with the band theothers rove about for days, keeping within call of it butthey do not minister to its wants. Some definite idea of what death is, andI have sometimes had reason to believe that they have aname for it. Publisher: Boston and London, Ginn & companyĬontributing Library: Smithsonian Librariesĭigitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage LibraryĬlick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Subjects: Monkeys Speech Sound production by animals Title: Apes and monkeys their life and languageĪuthors: Garner, Richard Lynch, 1848-1920 Identifier: apesmonkeystheir00garn ( find matches)
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