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Quadrupeds. 
THE GORILLA. (Troglodytes Gorilla.) 
This wonderful Ape, which has lately been discovered in 
the same region inhabited by the Chimpanzee, is thought, 
in some respects, to possess even a greater resemblance to 
our own species. He is said to attain a height of seven 
feet, but the largest specimens hitherto obtained have 
been rather less than six feet high. By some travellers 
the Gorilla is said to walk upright, with his hands rest- 
ing on the nape of his neck, but the state of his knuckles 
shows that he usually goes, like the Chimpanzee, on all 
fours. His skin is covered with short grizzled hair, and 
the naked skin of his face and hands is black. The 
Gorilla is much dreaded by the negroes who have to 
pass through the forests frequented by him when 
engaged in hunting the Elephant ; this is not on account 
of his teeth, although they are sufficiently formidable, 
but of the enormous strength of his hands, with which 
he can strangle a man in a moment, and it is even said 
that the old males never miss an opportunity of perform- 
ing this operation It is even said, that as a party of 
hunters is passing through the forest, one of their 
number will sometimes disappear suddenly, being caught 
up by a Gorilla lurking upon the low branches of a tree, 
the monster speedily strangles his victim and then lets 
the body fall. 
