We gorillas are good time-keepers, rise early and go to bed early, guided infallibly by the sun.
We gorillas have no brandy, no whisky, no wine, not even small beer, to inflame our blood.
Jack was smart in his wickedness, and was quite as treacherous as any of the gorillas I had met before.
Among them was Etia, the mighty and great slayer of gorillas and elephants.
Minsho promised to tell us the story of a fight between two gorillas in the evening by the camp-fire.
Before starting, Igoumba, the chief of the Olako, told us to be careful, for there were some bad and ferocious gorillas in the woods.
His little eyes, deep and sunken, seemed to be gray; his nose was more prominent than in the chimpanzee, for gorillas have noses, and consequently he comes nearer in appearance than the chimpanzee to the African negro.
This reminded me of the stories I had sometimes heard from the natives regarding the fearful conflicts the male gorillas have among themselves for the possession of a wife.
I confess I did not care to fightgorillas in the dark.
I heard one afternoon that the day before gorillas were in the forest not far from the village, and had already begun to play sad havoc with the plantain-trees.
Gorillas were very plentiful near Nkongon-Boumba, and were committing great depredations among the plantain and banana trees; the patches of sugar-cane were also very much devastated.
So no one was now left of my family of gorillas but Master Tom, and he was healthy and strong enough, and ate all the berries, nuts, and fruits we brought to him.
I heard a shriek--a sharp cry; the gorillas fled; they were females, but the men assured me the males could not be far off.
The big chimpanzees and the gorillas are said to fight the formidable leopard in that manner.
The place where these gorillas had been captured was about thirty miles above my settlement, up the river; at this point a low, narrow promontory projects into the stream.
Many a wild beast must have been astonished; gorillas must have roared, and thought that it was strange that there was any thing besides thunder that could make a noise louder than their own roars.
A few days after meeting the gorillas I was seated on the banks of the River Rembo-Ngouyai, looking at a very grand and impressive scene.
If gorillas are to be seen in a plantation near a village they most generally come in the early morning.
These gorillas looked so droll, walking in the most absurd way on all fours, and now and then walking erect.
Du Chaillu, the explorer, had an encounter with gorillas while crossing the Sierra del Crystal to reach the Fan country.
The natives claim, too, that these gorillas show more shrewdness and sense than ordinary animals.
The gorillas were, however, very agile, and soon escaped into the forest depths.
Du Chaillu, in speaking of his experience, says: "I protest I felt almost like a murderer when I saw the gorillas the first time.
The gorillas of this species can never be caught or killed, since they bear a charmed life.
A pathetically human look lingered in the eyes of some of the injured gorillasand Harry burst out with: "This is awful work.
No theory they could advance, although these ranged all the way from cannibals and gorillas to ghosts, had any effect on the solution of the mystery.
Um, big fight here," he mused to himself as he gazed about him at the mangled bodies of the gorillas which showed black as ink on the rocks in the sharp, brilliant moonlight.
It was recognized at once as one of the beaten gorillas scouting to see if the terrible white men had really gone.
On the third day after I went to live in the cage a family of ten gorillaswas seen to cross an open space along the back of a patch of plantains near one of the villages.
Other animals that travel in groups do the same thing; but in addition to this, the natives aver that the gorillas from time to time hold palavers or a rude form of court or council in the jungle.
I spent two days there with a white trader who had been stationed there for a year, and I was assured by him that there were no gorillas known in that part.
During the months of February and March the male gorillas are vociferous in their screaming, the young adults separate from the families, and some other things indicate that this is the season of pairing and breeding.
The largest family of gorillas that I have ever heard of was estimated to contain twenty members.
There I was told by the native woodsmen that no gorillas lived on the north side, but there were plenty of them along the lakes south of the river.
Half of the gorillas that have ever been in captivity have died from over-nursing.
That is starting that story aboutgorillas chewing up gun-barrels.
In four journeys along the Ogowe River and the lakes of that valley, I made careful inquiries at many of the towns, and the natives assured me that the gorillas lived on the south side of that river.
In view of these and countless other facts, I deem it safe to say that few or no gorillas can be found north of the Ogowe River at any point, and I even doubt if the specimen heard of on the Komo was a genuine gorilla.
In one day we had demonstrated beyond question that not only could baby gorillas communicate with their own people, but also that the female adults were creatures capable of exhibiting an astonishing depth of devotion towards the young.
Given careful attention to all these details, there seems to be no reason why gorillas shouldn't live for twenty or thirty years in captivity.
One felt afraid not so much of gorillasas of--Things.
One of those confounded gorillas has escaped and is in possession of the ship.
The trivial encounters with gorillas in England paled into nothingness compared with this, for the animal was less than a dozen yards away.
We can't continue raking ingorillas at this rate all day.
You must admit," I added, "that twenty-two gorillas out of thirty thousand is rather a poor show.
What I mean is that we shall be in the cage and the gorillas outside.
Furthermore, our total number of live and serviceable gorillas had leapt from eleven to fifteen--a progress sufficiently noteworthy to impress Gran'pa with a sense of even my importance.
With a very luke-warm interest, after so much excitement, we watched the gorillas slowly regain consciousness, and listened sympathetically to the male's language when he fully awoke to the general state of affairs.
Then he would have seen the centre portion of the bars slide apart and one of the gorillas emerge into the open and emit weird cries.
South of the Gaboon, we liberated the gorillas on a lonely shore which was backed by dense woodland, and a few hours later the trouble broke out anew.
If we caught all the gorillas in the whole of Africa, it would be no more than a mere drop in the ocean.
I am unable to answer the question, but it should be noted that none of the Mazitu or other natives had ever heard of the existence of more true gorillas in this part of Africa.
Then it raised its great hand to crush Mavovo with a blow, as I believe gorillas are wont to do.
I reckon this box will not be very safe with him, for there's more gorillas runnin' loose about this country than there is skippers in an old cheese.
We cleaned out a gang of gorillas afore we had this scrimmage in the road.
The Gorillas live in small companies, or rather families, consisting of their young of different ages, along with the father and mother.
They had Martha taped to another chair in the opposite corner, and the two gorillas were standing in the middle of the room, obviously trying to think.
When I stopped bouncing, one of the gorillas was standing in front of me, about as tall as Washington Monument as seen from the sidewalk in front.
Amongst recent arrivals at the gardens were two young gorillas from Western Africa, who reached the Zoo in apparent health, but, as has happened on former occasions, after a few weeks the poor things sickened and died.
They took the ground that it was safer to have all men treated alike, whether they were gorillas or not.
At daylight we were up, and followed the path leading towards the place where we thought the gorillas had slept.
We walked several miles, all the time hearing the two gorillas continuously talking to each other.
Were they lost, or had they been killed by gorillas or elephants?
Like the gorillas they have immensely powerful limbs, and have been known without apparent effort to break off branches of trees which a man would have been powerless to bend.
Suddenly I was startled by a strange, discordant, half human cry, and beheld four young and half-grown gorillas running towards the deep forest.
Along side of the granite blocks lay an immense dead tree, and about this the gorillaswere likely to be.
By the tracks it was easy to know that there must have been several gorillas in company.
According to du Chaillu, the natives entertain many superstitions about the gorilla, among the commonest of which is the belief that some gorillas are inhabited by human spirits.
Secondly, the adult crania of Gorillas which have as yet been measured differ among themselves by nearly one-third, the maximum capacity being 34.
One day as I was quietly dining with Captain Holder, of the Cambria (a vessel just arrived from England), one of my men came in with the startling news that three live gorillas had been brought, one of them full grown.
I had no expectation of seeing gorillas in the same plantation, and was carrying a light shot gun, having given my heavy double-barreled rifle to the boy to carry.
When the gorillas that I watched left their plantain trees, they moved off at a great pace over the ground, with their arms extended straight forward towards the ground, and moving rapidly.
As my readers may easily imagine, I had excellent opportunity of observing, during these two days, the manner in which the gorillas walked when in open ground.
There are no gorillason this continent, so far as is known.
And these creatures, though they certainly somewhat resemble gorillas in a general way, have certain points of difference, the most important of which is the shape of the skull, while another is their much greater bulk.
Soon there will be no more higher apes, if medical science continues to progress; no more gorillas or chimpanzees.
Anne, tells me that he has twice seen a family of gorillas feeding in a plantain grove, and that, on both occasions, the father gorilla sat quietly eating the fruit which the others gathered and brought to him.
Many of the natives declare that they have seen the gorillas holding a palaver, at which the king always presided, while the others stood or sat in a semicircle, talking in an excited manner.
I think it quite probable that the gorillas habitually sleep in trees at night, but from all I can learn of the king, he looks after his own comfort and safety first, and lets his family do as they can.
The third day after my cage was complete, a family of ten gorillas crossed the rear of the open grounds belonging to the mission, and not more than two hundred yards from the house.
During the day gorillas wander about from place to place in quest of food, and wherever night finds them they remain till morning.
At N'djole I was assured that five gorillas had been seen near there only a few weeks before my visit, and that two native Pangwes had been killed by them, on the south side of the river.
Such stories abound in the parts where no gorillas were ever seen, but when you get into his true range his real history loses much of its poesy.
At the time of his death, in 1468, his ships had not gone farther than the spot where Hanno found his gorillas two thousand years before.
Asia, the orangs of Borneo and Sumatra, the gorillas of W.
Each of these apes resembles man most in some one physical characteristic: the gibbons in the formation of the teeth, the orangs in the brain-structure, the gorillas in size, and the chimpanzees in the sigmoid flexure of the spine.
If the sportsmen don't come out until I write a book about them, I fear the gorillas will remain undisturbed for all time to come.
I think that the gorillas will not be disturbed by many hunters with white faces.
We must bid adieu to the gorillas at once, and dog the steps of this marauding party, so as to prevent our good friends Mbango and Jambai being surprised and carried into slavery along with all their people.
And, Mak, you lump of ebony, do you keep a sharp lookout for gorillas in the meantime.
Among the gorillas these solitaires are usually very large, remarkably fierce, uncommonly ugly, desperately vindictive, and peculiarly courageous; so much so that the natives hold them in special dread.
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