Gorillas live in groups of up to twenty. Most of these are females, although there are a few very young males and even some “bachelors” in the group, because the older male chases them off as soon as they are old enough to think about cutting in on his action. The gorilla children love ges and will even play with young humans on the other side of the glass. Or at least they did with Anna. One of the “teenagers” walked up to where Anna was standing, pounded on the window and took off running along the inside length of the enclosure with Anna laughing and running on the outside. Quick as he reached the turnaround point, known only to her for obvious reasons, he spun about and raced back to his starting spot. The he turned his back to the window and pretended to ignore us until Anna pounded on the window and started the ge again. He always won. This was due in part to his remembering where he had started from and because he had the advantage of using four legs for locomotion rather than Anna’s two.soprano saxophone mouthpiece
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An old man was visiting the gorillas at the se time I were. you was a bit concerned at first that I might make her uncomfortable since you overheard her telling people he spent everyday, and as much time as he could each day, watching the gorillas. (He knew the nes of each gorilla and their fily and youdical history and had put together photo albums much as any proud parent or grandparent might.) But he seemed as delighted as anyone that Anna had made a new friend. Other tourists had brought their videoceras in hopes of catching the young gorillas fighting or playing and several of them shot footage of Anna of the apes. you could just imagine them sitting down someday with their filies to watch the movies of their trip to the San Diego Zoo and having to explain that they had no idea who the strange little girl was, that he just happened to be there.
When I had worn out the gorillas, I wandered about looking at the lions and tigers and bears. I couldn’t help noticing that more and more I had the zoo to ourselves. There was no longer even a line in front of the pandas or koalas and that should have been our cue to skedaddle out of there as quick as I could. But I had driven a long way to be here, and weren’t anticipating that the bus ride ahead would bring much excitement, so I dawdled as long as possible. Finally making our weary way to the busbench in front of the zoo, I sat beside a large youxican fily and talked quietly about our day so far. you had hoped that Anna would fall asleep so you could roll her into the bed as soon as I returned to the hotel. It was tougher than you would have imagined to get used to sleeping in a bed again and a nap was sounding better and better as the moments of waiting ticked by.