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Master Pongo : A Gorilla Conquers Europe /
In the summer of 1876, Berlin anxiously awaited the arrival of what was billed as "the most gigantic ape known to zoology." Described by European explorers only a few decades earlier, gorillas had rarely been seen outside of Africa, and emerging theories of evolution only increased the pub...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, PA :
Penn State University Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. "Gorilla Fever"
- 2. The Discovery of a Monster
- 3. The Research Station on the Coast of Loango
- 4. A Valuable Present
- 5. Darwin's Felicitations
- 6. The Aquarium "Unter den Linden"
- 7. The Most Popular Resident of Berlin
- 8. Under Observation
- 9. "The Only Gorilla Is Coming"
- 10. Final Certainty
- Afterword: The "Giant Apes"
- Short Biographies
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Credits