I Had This Great Urge... I Had

[my] Excursions Provided A Unique Opportunity For Observing [the Gorillas' Behavior] In Their Natural Habitat... Then, All Too Soon, The Infants Were Demanded For Their Trip To The Zoo. ... [h]appily The Babies Did Not Know They Would Never See Their Mountain Home Again

One Of The Basic Steps In Saving A Threatened Species Is To Learn More About It: Its Diet, Its Mating And Reproductive Processes, Its Range Patterns, Its Social Behavior.

None Of The Three Great Apes Is Considered Ancestral To Modern Man, Homo Sapiens, But They Remain The Only Other Type Of Extant Primate With Which Human Beings Share Such Close Physical Characteristics. From Them We May Learn Much Concerning The Behavior Of Our Earliest Primate Prototypes, Because Behavior, Unlike Bones, Teeth, Or Tools, Does Not Fossilize.

I Have No Friends. The More You Learn About The Dignity Of The Gorilla, The More You Want To Avoid People.

[about Gorillas] You Take These Fine, Regal Animals. How Many (human) Fathers Have The Same Sense Of Paternity? How Many Human Mothers Are More Caring? The Family Structure Is Unbelievably Strong.