Garner, Richard Lynch, 1848-1920 · Boston and London, Ginn & company · leaf 106
t 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… … 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…
Monkeys · Speech · Sound production by animals
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