MUSIC AND MONKEYS
EXPERIMENT AT A ZOO An experiment to discover the effect of music on male and female monkeys was lately made -with a jazz band at the Jardin d'Acclimatation v (Bois de Boulogne Zoo) in Paris. The jazz started with a noisy vamp.\ The first reaction 'of the audience, composed of was that all the animals, panic-stricken, shot up and down and finally took refuge in the corner of the big cage. A violin solo caused the animals to make an infernal noise which completely drowned the sound of the instrument. Then a man, dressed as an American sailor, danced in the cage while the band played a dance tune. The frightened monkeys stared at the dancer in silence, but did not move from the corner where they had sought refuge. After the concert bananas and oranges were served out to the audience, which thoroughly enjoyed them, and the monkeys recovered their gaiety. A scientist who was present pronounced that it' was the violin solo which had produced the moat interesting reaction.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21248, 30 July 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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174MUSIC AND MONKEYS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21248, 30 July 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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