AN APE’S FAMILY LIFE.
A large male gorilla, 6ft. Sin. tall, ie the latest exhibit to the Port Elizabeth Museum, and is attracting considerable interest from visitors. This type of ape, says the much-travelled director of the museum, takes only one wife and remains faithful to her. Should she ibe slain, hie rage and grief is terrible to witness, and for months he is inconsolable. The gorilla is usually seen with his wife and children of various ague, roaming through the forest in search of food, which consists of wild fruits, berries, and edible roots. The home of the family is a nest in a sturdy tree, made by bending boughs together and covering them with twigs and moss at a height of 20 feet or so aJbove the ground. The mother and her children retire for the night to this little arboreal shelter. The father sits down at the foot of the tree and, placing his broad back against it, sleeps peacefully, ready to start up on the instant should a prowling leopard attempt to scale the trunk to attack his family. No leopard, he adds, will willingly risk a battle with a fully adult gorilla.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 October 1922, Page 11
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197AN APE’S FAMILY LIFE. Taranaki Daily News, 14 October 1922, Page 11
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