The Extraordinary Gentleness Of The Adult Male

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.

It Was Their Individuality Combined With The Shyness Of Their Behavior That Remained The Most Captivating Impression Of This First Encounter With The Greatest Of The Great Apes.

[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.

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.

Gorillas Are Almost Altruistic In Nature. There's Very Little If Any 'me-itis.' When I Get Back To Civilization I'm Always Appalled By 'me, Me, Me.'