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Title: Animals in action; studies and stories of beasts, birds and reptiles; their habits, their homes and their peculiarities
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge S. (Elbridge Streeter), 1846-1902
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Publisher: Boston, Lothrop pub. co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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n about the gorilla came to light about fiftyyears ago. In 1847 ^ gorillas skull was brought to Europe, andserved to establish the existence of the animal. Then, afterfurther details about the interesting ape had been furnished byWilson, Savage, and Ford, it remained for the Frenchman, DuChaillu, and the Englishman, Read, to give the first completedescription of the gorilla, and they confirmed fully Hannos ac-counts about this king of the African jungles. The full-growngoriWs. (Ajit/iropopit/iecus g-ori//a is his Latin name) is an extraor-dinarily strong animal, 1.65 metres in height and from ninety toninety-five centimetres across the shoulders. It has arms or forelegs about 1.08 metres in length, of tremendous muscular develop-ment, and its bite is as fierce as that of the bear. The gorilla livesonly in the swampy jungles of the west coast of Africa, in thevicinity of the equator, about the rivers Gaboon, Muni, and Fer-nandovaz. Here he is to be found in little troops containing one
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Gorilla defending his Family from a Leopard, A GORILLA FIGHTING WITH A LEOPARD. 13 or two males and several females with their young. He buildshis camp in the trees and lives on palm-shoots, bananas, leaves,and sprouts, besides various kinds of nuts and fruits. Thegorilla is not in the least afraid of a human being, and is a dan-gerous adversary on account of his enormous strength, his quick-ness, and savagery, especially when he has been wounded withouthaving received a death-blow. At such times his wild angerarouses him to fearful execution. The gorilla throws himself boldly upon the most formidablebeasts of prey in his native jungles, the panther and the leopard,and often overcomes them through the colossal strength of hisfists, aided by his frightful teeth. Thus even the leopard, as inthe battle illustrated in our picture, must succumb to his foe.He has fought with an old male gorilla. The robber has beenon the watch for the young gorillas in the arms of their mother,and the old m

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