TO DISPEL DEPRESSION
The life of Hulluck. an ape in the Bronx Zoo, of New York, has probably been saved by a phonograph. The ape, which is of the gibbon variety, a.nd hails from Borneo, had been suffering for some time from apparently Incurable melancholy and general depression, when Mr Ditmars, the curator, had a happy idea. Believing that the animalsfa illness was due to lack of one of his own species, to talk to, the curator took a phonograph to the cage and secured cylinder records of the gibbon's muttcrings. Every day for the past week a keeper has been entertaining the ape with tlic phonographic record of its discourses, songs, and eerie, long-drawn, dismifl chants, and the effect, says the curator, has been simply wonderful. The ape talks back at the records, is greatly excited at times during the argument with his own voice, and has already pul on weight and become a changed creature.
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Southland Times, Issue 17654, 11 February 1916, Page 7
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157TO DISPEL DEPRESSION Southland Times, Issue 17654, 11 February 1916, Page 7
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