Monkey See, Monkey Connect, And The Grasshopper And The Bell Cricket

In the texts “Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Connect” by de Waal, “Animals in Translation” by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson, and lastly “The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket” by Yasunari Kawabata. People form bonds by mimicry, the 5 senses, also observation and memory.
In “Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Connect”, de Waal explains that people form bonds from mimicry. People and animals also form bonds by laughter. So the laughing humans in the first paragraph are like the playful chimps in that they both laugh when others do. That’s where the mimicry of the humans and the chimps plays in. As de Waal explains, “The infectiousness of laughter even works across species”(123). As he also says, “This is why comedy shows on television have

laugh tracks and why theatre audiences are sometimes sprinkled with ‘laugh plants’: people paid to raucous laughing at any joke that comes along”(de Waal 123). This manacle is formed by people and animals interacting by body mapping. Otherwise known as mimicry. The monkey for example, it will mimic the laughing person, thus they will both be laughing. These quotes prove that species are the same by laughing when others laugh. de Waals claim is people and animals interact with body and mind, so it’s showing that they can laugh together.
Animals also form bonds with people as explained in Grandin’s “Animals in Translation”.

The ligatures that are formed in this story are by a cat always knowing when her owner is going to be home by using its 5 senses. Grandin deciphers, “Jane’s husband works at home, and five minutes before Jane comes home , he’ll see the cat go to the door, sit down, and wait”(54). This certain bond is formed by the cat using her hearing to know that Jane is coming. The cat also looks out of a window, and Jane has a certain walk the cat can notice. Grandin claims that animals don’t have ESP, otherwise known as extrasensory perception, despite what many people think. She uses this analogy, “Their sensory worlds are so much richer than ours it’s almost as if we are depth and blind”(Grandin 53). This quote is explaining that cats have much better hearing and eyesight than any of us humans

do.
Yasunari Kawabata provides yet another reason why animals and humans form bonds with one another.

In this short story, the connection is formed by observation and memory. Plus, searching is another link explained. Evidence to support is, “Oh! It’s not a grasshopper. It’s a bell cricket.” The girls eyes shone as she looked at the small brown insect. ‘It’s a bell cricket! It’s a bell cricket!’ The children echoed in a cavious chorus”(Yasunari 135). This relationship continues to be formed by the kids observing and searching for a grasshopper, but instead, finding a rare cricket. “Does anyone want a grasshopper? A grasshopper!”(Kawabata 135). As well as, “It’s a bell cricket.” Glancing with her bright intelligent eyes the boy who had given her the cricket, the girl opened the insect cage hanging at her side and released the cricket in it”(Kawabata 135). Thus, that’s how observation and memory comes into play in this short

story.
As readers can infer, there are many different ways for alliances to be formed from animals to humans. Including monkeys copying humans, a cat always knowing when her master is going to get home even if she can’t see her, along with kids finding something they never thought they would. It’s very weird how intelligent our animals are to connect with people, and to see what they do. Lastly, it’s different how animals can even mimic us, and even sense us coming from a ways away!