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Apes and monkeys; their life and language (1900)

Garner, Richard Lynch, 1848-1920 · Boston and London, Ginn & company · leaf 126

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One of the most remarkable of all the social habits ofthe chimpanzee is the kanjo, as it is called in the nativetongue. The word does not mean dance in the senseof saltatory gyrations, but it implies more the idea of car-nival. It is believed that more than one family takepart in these festivities.… … 104 APES AND MONKEYS peat bed, which, being porous, acts as a resonance cavityand intensifies the sound. This constitutes a kind ofdrum. It yields rather a dead sound, but this is of con-siderable volume. This queer drum is thus made by the chimpanzees.They secure the clay along the banks of some…

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