Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1912 — GETS APES TO TALK. [ARTICLE]

GETS APES TO TALK.

Scientist Trains Chimpanzees to Use Power of Speech. ■ - Taught to Tell Colors by Name— Beasts Raised as Members of Family Show Evidence of Their\Culture. Philadelphia, Pa.i-Dr. William Furness, the psychologist. of Walingford. Pa., after two years’ work has succeeded in educating two chimpanzees so that they can Talk and have remarkable reasoning powers. To further his investiga ion Dr. Furness Is breeding the chi npanzees. He intends to ascertaii if the offspring will retain the. same Intelligence. The chimpanzees hive been on the estate of Dr. H. H.\Furness, father of the psychologist, and have been daily under personal instruction. They have been living in avtruly “intellectual” atmosphere. The experiments proved that the monkey and chimpanzee has a brain capable of logically discriminating objects and of thinking. The chimpanzees have been constantly talked to, petted, and practically been members of the family. Each

day they have been subjected to a rigid course of “study” under the direct supervision of Dr. Furness. Boards with large holes in them were placed In the cages, the animals beings given a ball and a square piece of wood, both'of which’exactly fit their respective openings in the board. After a few days one of the chimpanzees endeavored to force the ball through a square hole, but failed.. It then picked up the square block and pushed it through. Later, both animals, by their own reasoning, found that the ball would fit into the circle and only the block would pass through the square. An extension of the experiment has been made during the last two years and it has been learned that the chimpanzees wdll differentiate any size or shape. Various other plans were devised to stimulate and intensify the power of thought until the animals’ education has reached such a degree that they recognize a large number of words, associating them with the corresponding objects. They also repeat short words. Ribbons of various colors will be chosen by the beasts when they are called by name.