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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brought chimpanzees from the Congo and from Sierra Leone. In Borneo her collectors caught the rare black ape-Mme. Abreu's is the only live one in any collection. From Gibraltar came a Barbary ape, the only native European monkey. Africa and South America contributed lion monkeys. Thumbless spider monkeys swing merrily from the trees in this private zoo. In all, there are now 130 monkeys representing 25 species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Apes | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

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