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VOICE AND LANGUAGE ' OF CHIMPANZEES 



On another morning, Panzee had been uttering notes of 

 warning with her word ho, because of a chugging auto that 

 stood some yards away, and caused her great concern. As 

 a guest of the house approached the screen from the outside, 

 Panzee came forward and greeted her, as though trying to 

 tell her of the fearsome thing, and used the same tones of 

 warning with the peculiarly aspirated ho. (See nos. 266- 

 275.) 



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PP PPP 



ho 



To greet her friends, she used most frequently her word 

 gko, or one of its variants. The g and k are blended and 

 have no equivalent in English. 



On the same morning she welcomed a visitor with this 

 tone softly repeated five times: 



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:v:j -':j ::j-":j : 

 pp 



gko - - - - 



And a little later, when one of her men friends approached 

 (she was partial to men), she used the same type of phrase 

 more rapidly: 



217 



When pleading, at which both she and Chim were adept, 

 they used ooh. As they were being left for the night, Panzee 



