Word: chimp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Typical shots: Tarzan nuzzling contentedly with his lithely amphibian mate in their rock-bound swimming pool, undulating into an underwater kiss for a fadeout. Best all-round performer: Cheetah, the Chimp...
...Baldwin, L. I., Dr. Henry Cushier Raven, associate curator of Manhattan's Museum of Natural History, offered for sale Meshie Mungkut, 5-year-old chimpanzee. No ordinary chimp is Meshie. Four years ago Dr. Raven brought her from the jungles of West Africa to live in his Long Island home. As playmate to the young Ravens, Meshie soon learned the routine of civilization. Today she weighs 70 lb., is 3 ft. high, has the mind of a 12-year-old, will never be much wiser. Like any well-reared girl Meshie brushes her teeth and showers when she gets...
...Yerkes does not claim to know. But when a wild female ape is seen carrying two babies there is no assurance, says he, that she bore either of them. Though born somewhat prematurely. Mona's twins were last week approaching their first birthday normal and hale as any chimp youngsters...
...from the Java to the Modern Man ("or Nervous Wreck") in 14 pages. He concludes this section: "All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people." In brief but adequate sketches he disposes of the Apes. "When a Chimpanzee looks at another Chimp he does not see what we see. They frequently have twins." Author Cuppy can jargon with the best of them: "The Gorilla could do with more brains. His corpus callosum is not very good but the hippocampus major is O. K. The hallux is fair." "The family life...
...London Sketch, in a page of other animal pictures, published the photograph of a simian eating a grape, with the following captions: "Catching the grape fallen from the forehead: a chimpanzee does his teatime trick'...Need it be added that the 'chimp' is our old friend...