Animals: Babe & Chimpanzee

Nine months ago Dr. Winthrop Niles Kellogg, professor of experimental psychology at Indiana University, got a year's leave of absence, moved to Orange Park, Fla., with his wife and10-month-old son. From his friend Professor Robert Mearns Yerkes of the Yale Experimental Station he borrowed a 7½-month-old chimpanzee. He clothed his chimpanzee in cap, jumper and diaper, fed it with his child, kept it in the baby's room, where it spent long hours playing on the floor with Junior Kellogg.

For nine months babe & chimpanzee were inseparable. They quarreled occasionally, but not...

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