Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1892 — Monkeys Do Talk. [ARTICLE]

Monkeys Do Talk.

Prof. Garner in the Forum says that his researches leave him no doubt at all that monkeys do really talk. The range of their language, or languages, for each variety speaks a separate tongue, is small, and they have no apparent conception of abstract ideas. But not only do they use many distinct words with definite meanings—some of which he has learned and is able to reproduce—but some of their words, he declares, are evidently not sounds that occur in the human languages. In short ho thinks that in their simian tongues he has found the primitive form of the first human speech.