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How strong is an adult silver back male Gorilla when compared to a sturdy man?

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Re: How strong is an adult silver back male Gorilla when compared to a sturdy man?
« Reply #20 on: 23/07/2008 11:41:01 »
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"There is more meaning and mutual understanding in exchanging a glance with a gorilla than with any other animal I know. Their sight, their hearing, their sense of smell are so similar to ours that they see the world in much the same way as we do. We live in the same sort of social groups with largely permanent family relationships. They walk around on the ground as we do, though they are immensely more powerful than we are. So if there were ever a possibility of escaping the human condition and living imaginatively in another creature's world, it must be with the gorilla. The male is an enormously powerful creature but he only uses his strength when he is protecting his family and it is very rare that there is violence within the group. So it seems really very unfair that man should have chosen the gorilla to symbolise everything that is aggressive and violent, when that is the one thing that the gorilla is not — and that we are."


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How strong is an adult silver back male Gorilla when compared to a sturdy man?
« Reply #21 on: 23/07/2008 18:10:08 »
That's a big puddy-tat!  [:0]

Arusha is the jump-off point for Kilimanjiro and Ngorongoro. Ngorongoro is quite simply stunning.

Tanga is on the coast near the Kenyan border.
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