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" It is said that when the male is first seen he gives a terrific yell, that resounds far and wide through the forest, something like kh — ah! "
Cassell's popular natural history - Page 38
by Cassell, ltd - 1863
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Heredity and Morals as Affected by the Use and Abuse of the Sexual Instinct ...

James Foster Scott - 1900 - 436 pages
...in the nest above, from the nocturnal attacks of leopards." And Savage" says of the gorillas that " when the male is first seen he gives a terrific yell that resounds far and wide through the forest. . . . The females and young at the first cry quickly disappear; he then approaches the enemy in great...
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The History of Human Marriage

Edward Westermarck - 1901 - 676 pages
...informants agree in the assertion that but one adult male is seen in every band. " It is said that when the male is first seen he gives a terrific yell that resounds far and wide through the forest. . . . The females and young at the first cry quickly disappear ; he then approaches the enemy in great...
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Source Book for Social Origins: Ethnological Materials, Psychological ...

William Isaac Thomas - 1909 - 956 pages
...his informants agree in the assertion that but one adult male is seen in every band. "It is said that when the male is first seen he gives a terrific yell that resounds far and wide through the forest. Jf. . . The females and young at the first cry quickly disappear ; he then approaches the enemy in...
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Man's Place in Nature and Other Anthropological Essays

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1919 - 358 pages
...gives a terrific yell, that resounds far and wide through the forest, something like kh—ah! kh—ah! prolonged and shrill. His enormous jaws are widely...under lip hangs over the chin, and the hairy ridge nnd scalp are contracted upon the brow, presenting mi uHpect of indescribable ferocity. " The females...
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In Brightest Africa

Carl Ethan Akeley - 1923 - 308 pages
...he gives a terrific yell that resounds far and wide through the forest, something like kh-ah! kh-ah! prolonged and shrill. His enormous jaws are widely...chin, and the hairy ridge and scalp is contracted upon the brow, presenting an aspect of indescribable ferocity. The females and young at the first cry...
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In Brightest Africa

Carl Ethan Akeley - 1923 - 424 pages
...and native traders as they came suddenly upon them while passing through the forests. It is said that when the male is first seen he gives a terrific yell...resounds far and wide through the forest, something like kh-ah! kh-ah! prolonged and shrill. His enormous jaws are widely opened at each expiration, his under...
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The Year of the Gorilla

George B. Schaller - 2009 - 303 pages
...always offensive in their habits, never running from man as does the Chimpanzee. ... It is said that when the male is first seen he gives a terrific yell...resounds far and wide through the forest, something like kh-ah! prolonged and shrill. . . . The females and young at the first cry quickly disappear; he then...
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The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1997 - 398 pages
...native traders, as they came suddenly upon them while passmg through the forests. "It is said, that when the male is first seen he gives a terrific yell,...hangs over the chin, and the hairy ridge and scalp are contracted upon the brow, presenting an aspect of indescribable ferocity. "The females and young,...
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Boston Journal of Natural History, Volume 5

1847 - 646 pages
...and native traders as they came suddenly upon them while passing through the forests. It is said that when the male is first seen he gives a terrific yell...chin, and the hairy ridge and scalp is contracted upon the brow, presenting an aspect of indescribable ferocity. The females and young at the first cry...
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Man's Place in Nature: And Other Anthropological Essays

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1895 - 350 pages
...native traders, as they came suddenly upon them while passing through the forests. " It is said that when the male is first seen he gives a terrific yell,...hangs over the chin, and the hairy ridge and scalp are contracted upon the brow, presenting an aspect of indescribable ferocity. "The females and young,...
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