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Show I How the Gorilla Walks. The usual pictures of the gorilla do cot represent him as I have seen him. He has not only a crouching habit, but he walks on all four of his legs and has the taction bf most quadrupeds, using his right arm. and left leg at the same time, and alternates with the left arm and right leg. It is not exactly a walk or a trot, but a kind of ambling gait, , while the chimpanzee uses his arms as crutches, "but lifts one foot from the ; ground a little in advance of the other. They do not place the palm of the hand ; on the ground, but uss the back of the i fingers from the second joint and at times the one I have described above i 6eemed to touch only the back of the R nails, but this was when ehe was scarce-j scarce-j ly moving at all. I am now preparing ; f to photograph some of them, and I think I I can give a more reliable picture of I this animal than I have ever seen here- tofore. McClure's Magazine, f |
