. Review of reviews and world's work. ech I found the firstdirticulty to be overcome in both the orang andthe chimpanzee i» their lack of unc of lip!« ortnnKuc in making their natural emotional ;te natural cries are almost entirely, I thitikI may say, head tmirs—shrirks, sijucais (»r (^riiiilH,made for the k^ CT • inspiration. Theyuii(|urktir)nal)lv have, however, disiinclly <li(frrriitHounds to indicate their simple emotions of frur,an((er, and joy. The oralis in one reipect dorsuse the lip« to make a Hound indiratiiiK warningor apprrhriuion; this soiin<l i« madr with ilirli


. Review of reviews and world's work. ech I found the firstdirticulty to be overcome in both the orang andthe chimpanzee i» their lack of unc of lip!« ortnnKuc in making their natural emotional ;te natural cries are almost entirely, I thitikI may say, head tmirs—shrirks, sijucais (»r (^riiiilH,made for the k^ CT • inspiration. Theyuii(|urktir)nal)lv have, however, disiinclly <li(frrriitHounds to indicate their simple emotions of frur,an((er, and joy. The oralis in one reipect dorsuse the lip« to make a Hound indiratiiiK warningor apprrhriuion; this soiin<l i« madr with ilirlip* pitrsrd up and llir air siickrd tluoiiKh tlirm—an rnimfirru\ci\ anil prolont(rd kissing soiiiiil,followed by a KruniiiiK expiration utid iiispira-lion. . My oldest oraiiK would make llii« •oun<i on command (I had merely to nay, Wliuti« the funny •oiind you make whrn you arefriKlitrtird i*). Tlirir eiprrssion of olrasiirr, a*I have heard it, i* tcvera! Iiigh-pitcned Kjueaki 108 THE RKllEW OE REIIEIIS. irk IliMidKrupli hy Onrge (JIaddcn, Willi permU&lon of Uic .New VoZoolugical Soriitj molly TVINC A KNOT IN A ROPE (At the time when this photngraph was taken Mcilly,an adult orang-utan, had lived in the New YorkZoological Hark about nine years. No one knows how-she learned this trick of tying a knot in a roiie. Mollydied about three years ago, a victim of tubcrculoMs) made with the lips closed. Their expression ofanger is a deep-toned guttural grunt or bark,much like that of an angry hog. The writer also describes the cliimpan/.eesnatural emotional vocabulary, which, likethat of the orang, is limited to a few inar-ticulate sounds. In the case of the orang-utan it took at leastsix months of daily training to teach her to saypapa. This word was selected not only be-cause it is a very primitive sound, but also be-cause it combined two elements of vocalizationto which orang-utans and chimpanzees are un-accustomed ; namel>, the use of lip> and an e


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