I Have No Friends. The More You

I Shall Never Forget My First Encounter With Gorillas. Sound Preceded Sight. Odor Preceded Sound In The Form Of An Overwhelming, Musky-barnyard, Humanlike Scent. The Air Was Suddenly Rent By A High-pitched Series Of Screams Followed By The Rhythmic Rondo Of Sharp Pok-pok Chestbeats From A Great Silverbacked Male Obscured Behind What Seemed An Impenetrable Wall Of Vegetation.

Active Conservation [of Gorillas] Involves Simply Going Out Into The Forest, On Foot, Day After Day After Day, Attempting To Capture Poachers, Killing-regretfully-poacher Dogs, Which Spread Rabies Within The Park, And Cutting Down Traps.

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

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.

The Man Who Kills The Animals Today Is The Man Who Kills The People Who Get In His Way Tomorrow.