Talking Chimpanzee's Death.

Manawatu Herald, 20 January 1894, Page 3

Talking Chimpanzee's Death.

Professor Garner, the American ' scientist who went to Africa to study ! the language of the ape, has lost one j of the two very fine specimens of the ) chimpanzee which he brought back j with him. It has died at Liverpool. The names given by the professor to his anthropoid friends wore Aaron i ar'l Elißhaba. Elishaba fell a j victim to the severe English weather, j The scene at the deathbed of Elishaba is described as being of a very distressing kind. She died, in the arms of Aaron, who had been most assiduous in his attentions to j her during her illness. Professor | Garner was present during the last j moments of the chimpanzee, and j when he put his hand to her hi&A't | to see if it had ceased to beat, Aaron put his hand there too, looking up in the professor's eyes as if inquiring if that was ali they could do for her. Aaron would not permit the dead companion to be taken from him and clung to her body with such tenacity that the professor was compelled to lay it down on its bed of straw, when the distressed survivor released his hold. The sadness depicted on Aaron's countenance could not, it is said, have been clearer portrayed on the face of any human being, and his grief was inconsolable. When Prof. Gamer visited his protege afterwards a state of gloom still surrounded the cage, and poor Aaron was not consoled until he had his hand in that of the professor, and by signs and sounds was telling him of his distress. Both of tho animals had become greatly attached to Prof. Garner.