TALKS WITH MONKEYS
“No Agreement On Agenda”
(Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) LONDON. April 2. A Japanese professor, Kinji Imamishi, who travelled 6000 miles to talk to monkeys, has gone home in disgust, says the “News Chronicle’s" Kampala correspondent.
Professor Imamishi says monkeys have their own language with a vocabulary of about 30 words, according to the correspondent. He claims to have learned the language and chatted freely with monkeys in Japan.
He then wanted to extend nis acquaintance. First he climbed volcanos near the Congo border fm talks with gorillas. They could not agree on an agenda Then he spent three weeks chatting to the monkeys of lowland forests, but the conversations were one-sided.
"It is no good.” said the professor as he left for Tokyo. "African monkeys don't talk the same language.”
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28552, 3 April 1958, Page 13
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