Pace Twelve 



EVOLUTION 



January, 1928 



THE MONKEY AND THE 

 MOVIE 



By Albert J. Incalls 



HOW would monkeys and apes react 

 to motion pictures of other monkeys 

 and apes? To test this point a motion 

 picture called "The Gorilla" was shown 

 recently in the monkey house of the New 

 York Zoo. Several scientists observed the 

 caged anthropoids during the show. 



The monkeys virtually ignored the pic- 

 ture, even when the "gorilla" appeared. 

 But an ape, "Bessie," a half-grown female 

 chimpanzee, watched the entire show. 



After Kohts and C. K. Ogden. 

 Chimpanzee Laughing 



She curled herself up comfortably and 

 made an evening of it. Never once did 

 her eyes leave the screen. Her interest was 

 uniformly keen, but she revealed no sign 

 of emotion. Her eyes shone throughout, 

 and followed each entrance and departure 

 of an actor. What she thought, what the 

 comings and goings of the actors meant 

 to her, if they meant anything at all, I do 

 not know. But she seemed to take in the 

 movies just about the same as anyone 

 else would. 



The chimpanzee's intelligence is about 

 on a par, in some ways, with that of a 

 child of four or five. The gibbon, the 

 orang and the gorilla are classed with the 

 chimpanzee, making a family called the 

 simians. These four apes stand closer to 

 the human being both in body and mind 

 than to the large group of primates com- 

 monly called monkeys, and their intelli- 

 gence is far above that of the monkeys. 



Those interested in the mentality of 

 apes will find much food for thought in 

 Yerkes and Leonard's "Chimpanzee Intel- 

 ligence and Its Facial Expression"; also 

 in Robert Yerkes' "Almost Human" and 

 Professor Koehler's "Mentality of Apes." 

 In the March, 1927, issue of The Quar- 

 terly Journal of Biology (Baltimore, Md.) 

 there was a long article on "Anthropoid 

 Behavior" by Robert M. Yerkes and Mar- 

 garet Child. Incidentally, this article con- 

 tains a complete bibliography of the entire 

 subject of anthropoid ape behavior. 



MEET OUR CARTOONIST: NATE 

 COLLIER 



Many readers will want to know some- 

 thing about the artist who created the 

 clever cartoon on the back page of this 

 issue. The following, by Nate Himself, 

 in January Art and Life, elucidates. 

 My Autobiocraphy 



Born at the age of sixteen one Wed- 

 nesday morning of the afternoon of Fri- 

 day, somewhere during the ides of March 

 in December, according to Hoyle, in the 

 year of the big wind about 1648, Anno 

 Dominoes or Before Christ, I forget which. 



Graduated from Heidelberg in 1661. 



Shipped on the good ship Wiffempooff, 

 1662. for first cruise around Cape Horn. 



Assassinated by boomerang thrower in 

 Australia, 1663. 



Collaborated with Victor Hugo in writ- 

 ing "Memoirs of a Goldfish," 1670. 



Built Trans-Siberian Railway, 1741. 



Wrote Grays Elegy in Country Church- 

 yard, 1750. 



Discovered Kippered Herring, 1760. 



Founded Society for Prevention of 

 Cruelty to Sardines, 1800. 



Married Cleopatra, 1802. 



Pitched for Giants, 1813 to 1842. 



Married Carrie Nation, 1856. 



Wrote Gullivers Travels, 1858. 



Married Joan d' Arc, 1859. 



Joined Brigham Young's Mormon In- 

 vasion of Utah, 1865. 



Discovered North Pole, 1872. 



Invented Non-skid Pancakes. 1873. 



Wrote "The Love-Life of a Cheese Sand- 

 wich", 1880. 



Emigrated to Poland, 1883, and started 

 Coca-Cola Rebellion. 



Invented Cross Word Puzzles, 1925. 



And am still apparently a young man 

 in my early seventies, with a long life 

 before me. (Signed) Nate Collier. 



SCIENCE SERVICE 



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 This organization, founded some years ago 

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To the individual layman, however, its- 

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SYNTHETIC FOOD 



T}ROF. E. C C BALY of the University 

 of Liverpool has made up his mind 

 he is going to manufacture food syntheti- 

 cally and thus transfer the farm to the 

 laboratory. In his experiments he 19 try- 

 ing to imitate the process by which plants 

 turn carbon, hydrogen and oxygen into- 

 that chemical combination known as 

 sugar, and later changed for storage pur- 

 poses into starch. 



After years of research he believes he 

 is approaching this secret. By suspending 

 finely powdered carbonate of nickel or 

 cobalt in water containing carbon dioxide 

 gas and exposing this to sunlight, sugar 

 is produced. While the process is not the 

 same as that which takes place in con- 

 nection with the chlorophyll in plants. 

 Professor Baly believes he is on the road 

 to discovering one of the fundamental' 

 secrets of nature. 



After all, all life depends upon this 

 process. There are some animals that live 

 on other animals, but most of those eaten 

 as prey live upon plant life. 



After Koehler and C. K. Ogden. 

 Yes — Iff Got the Bananas 



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