A TALKING MONKEY.

Taihape Daily Times, 25 August 1919, Page 3

A TALKING MONKEY.

i DISCOVERY IN AFRICA. I ...._ l A new kind of a monkey, which }“talks like a man,” has been discov[ered by Professor‘ R. L_ Garner, of the Smithsonian Institution Who‘ brought a sample skeleton home to New York from the French Congo. Professor Garner brought the language with him, too, as he got the monkey to teach him before he killed it. “This monkc-y,” said the professor, “represents the highest type of animale llfe—short of man. It is a type hitherto unknown, and the nearest description I can give you, aside, from a technical one, is to say that it resembles a cross between the gorilla and the chinipanzee. "The language is strikingly similar to that of the human natives of the Congo region, where the monkey is found. You have to learn at least a part of the monkey language ‘before you ca.n approach one of the animals.” A New York journalist asks if this new monkey talks like a man, how must “Mrs” Monkey talk? '