Word: monkeying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cebus monkey in the San Diego zoo, says Beach, showed rational business aptitude by offering sticks or pebbles to visitors who were rich in peanuts or candy. The enterprise of this monkey named "Trader" was so successful that he nearly died of overeating. At last he was removed to the controlled economy of an experimental cage and given poker chips to trade with. When he paid out a red chip, he got a bit of orange. A blue chip bought a peanut; a white chip a slice of banana. Green chips were worth a slice of bread (which Trader...
Trader learned quickly which chips had monkey value. He traded the white (banana) chips oftener than any other. Runner-up: the blue (peanut) chips...
...experiments with chimpanzees and the even more primitive cebus monkey proved that these animals can understand symbols representing food, water or piggyback rides. Therefore they have the basic tools for rudimentary thinking...
...Knisely was peering into the blood vessels of a monkey with malaria. He found a radical change in the red cells: instead of flowing independently, they were clumped together in sluggish masses. Knisely and his group went on to study the circulation in other diseased animals. Sure enough, sludged blood turned up in every animal and human being suffering from severe injury or disease. All told, they found red-cell clumping associated with over 50 conditions, from the common cold to hysteria...
...records, "Tiger Rag," is similar to an older American version, except that the final trumpet solo has the phrase "I wandered today to the hill, Maggic" instead of the earlier "Oh, the monkey wrapped his tail around the flag pole." Continuing in the community song vein later on are snatches from "Tea For Two" and "Pat On Your Old Grey Bonnet...