A TALKING MONKEY.
DISCOVERY IX AFRICA’.. A new kind of :i monkey, which “(oiks like a man,” has lama dis-covered-by I’rofesspr R. L. Garner, of the Smithsonian InstiUilion, wlio brought n sample skeleton home to New York from the French Congo. Professor Garner brought the language with him, 100, as he got, (he monkey lo leach him before die killed it. “Tliis monkey,” said (he professor, “represents (he highest type of animal life —short of man. It m-a type hitherto unknown, and the nearest description 1 can give yon, aside from a technical one, is to say that it resembles a cross between the gorilla and the ehimpansee. “The language is strikingly similar to that of the humah natives of the Congo region, where the monkey is found. Yon have to learn at least a part of the monkey language before you mm approach one of the animals." A Xew York journalist asks if this new monkey talks like a man, how must “Mrs”. Monkey in Ik?
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2023, 2 September 1919, Page 1
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167A TALKING MONKEY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2023, 2 September 1919, Page 1
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