Photo of the Day #97: Lowland gorilla mother & child

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A mother lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) with her child, taken at the Bronx Zoo.

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As soon as you have anything to do with the gorilla the fascination of studying him begins to grow on you and you instinctively begin to speak of the gorilla as "he" in a human sense, for he is obviously as well as scientifically akin to man. - Carl Akeley