78 VOICE AND "language" OF CHIMPANZEES 



Evening. Panzee had had an unhappy time with Chim 

 who had treated her very roughly during most of the after- 

 noon in their playroom. They had been left alone through- 

 out the afternoon — a rare occurrence and deeply resented. 

 Chim had vented his irritation upon Panzee by dragging her 

 around the room and mauling her about for so long that she 

 was completely exhausted. When taken up her body was 

 shaken with emotion, and her lips trembled pitifully as she 

 seemed to be trying to express herself in these sobbing words: 



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ho - wha - hoho- wha - holio-wha- hoho - wha-ho-wha-ho-wha 

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She continued this until she was put down in her place at the 



supper table where the warm food attracted her attention, 



and she gradually grew quiet. 



CHIM EATIiTG 



The term fruit motive is applied to a group of purely 

 tonal phrases which are thoroughly distinctive in character, 

 and which were uttered by Chim and Panzee very frequently 

 in connection with the eating of oranges, apples, and bananas. 

 This fact appears to warrant the inference that they are 

 significant, an opinion confirmed by the writer 's observations 

 of other (adult) chimpanzees at the Zoological Park in New 

 York. (See Boma's records, nos. 286-290.) 



These fruit motives are underscored to facilitate their 

 recognition, and the food sounds are indicated by the word 

 gahk or one of its variations. 



It may be well at this point to note that Chim and Panzee 

 made occasional use of this type of phrase in connection with 

 milk (see no. 148), either when anticipating it or while having 



