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"The Victorian explorer and scholar Sir Richard Burton (18211890) was a young officer in India when he gathered together in his house forty monkeys in order to learn their language. As the British Empire colonized parts of the world, so too did Burton try to "colonize" simian culture, assigning his monkeys titles or occupations. His wife Isabel wrote: He had his doctor, his chaplain, his secretary, his aide-de-camp, his agent, and one tiny one, a very pretty, small, silky looking…

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