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Chimpanzee "Esau", one of the first performing apes in the United States c. 1901
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Chimpanzee "Esau", one of the first performing apes in the United States c. 1901
Snooky the Chimpanzee
"Like most chimps, Snooky is very fond of children and likes to play with them. Not long ago the Chester comedies produced a picture which used a number of children. Snooky enjoyed himself to the limit and so did the youngsters. But in playing with one ten year old, Snooky reverted to forest tactics and bit her. Mr Rounan promptly gave Snooky a whipping. Snooky took the whipping without resentment although he is estimated to have the strength of three full-grown men…"
- Colliers, 1921
"The Real Story of Apes in Entertainment...
Great apes are sentient animals who have the same emotions (positive and negative) as humans - compassion, affection, jealousy, anger, generosity, embarrassment, sense of humor, joy, homesickness, and sadness. In all the animal kingdom, they are the closest to man in behavior and intelligence, but they are not pseudo-humans or clowns for our pleasure." - Center for Great Apes
MAX, MORITZ, AND AKKA
"Max, Moritz, and Akka, the three well-known chimpanzees of the screen, will open their Rockhampton season next Saturday at the matinee. Max, Moritz, and Akka come direct from Hollywood with their screamingly funny tricks. They have proved such a success on the screen that Messrs. Birch, Carroll, and Coyle of the Wintergarden Theatre have engaged them as a vaudeville turn for the benefit of patrons. These monkeys can do practically anything that a human being can do, ride bicycles, eat with knife and fork, fight, dance and act, in fact they do almost everything but talk. The season of these clever chimpanzees is limited to four nights and two matinees, the first is on Saturday commencing at 2.30 p.m and the second matinee on Wednesday at 3 p.m. in the Wintergarden."
- The Morning Bulletin, 1927
Max and Moritz, "wonderful performing chimpanzee comedians" c. 1925