THE LIVING WORLD. 
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killed. The gorilla has but a small brain, and would seem to- enjoy but a 
limited range of intelligence; but within his limits of cunning and muscularity 
he is unapproachable. His imitative powers are not complete, for though he 
will collect ivory, following an example of the natives, he has not sense enough 
to lay it down, but will frequently exhaust his strength by aimlessly carrying 
about a heavy and useless load. It will stir up a deserted camp-fire and sit 
by its light and warmth, but it never occurs to him to put on fresh fuel. It 
will build huts in imitation of the work of man, but it will then stay on the 
outside. It will carry about its sick child, but if the child dies it will never 
think of laying 
it down, or of 
burying it. It 
will gather its 
plunder into 
bundles after the 
manner of the 
farmer, but if it 
makes these too 
heavy, it will 
never think of a 
remedy. 
The gorilla 
is in color black,. 
or grizzly black, 
wearing a coat 
whose hair is 
somewhat more 
than two inches 
in length, and 
which on the 
arms and legs 
runs down from 
shoulder to el¬ 
bow, and up the 
rest of its length. 
Though its eyes 
are naturally 
brown they be¬ 
come very green 
under the effects 
femai,e goriela with young. of excitement 
and add to an 
appearance which is exceedingly dreadful and repulsive. Its paws and fingers 
are large-sized and enormous in their muscular power, and the hind ones 
have the use of the thumb very much like the hands of a human being. 
In size it is nearly three feet across the shoulders, more than five feet tall 
when erect, and the body, excluding the legs, is about two and a quarter feet 
in length. The gorilla is not gregarious in his habits, but usually solitary; 
like the criminal classes among mankind, whom the gorilla resembles in malig- 
