The skins of the gorillas are on
their way to New York with the para
phernalia of the hunters aboard a
freighter. The biggest of the gorilla
quintet ? was 5 feet 6 inches tall,
weighed 360 pounds and measured
sixty inches around the chest.
Besides being a hunter and explorer
Dr. Akeley is a taxidermist and sculptor
and he believes that wnen he recreates
In realistic form the five manlike apes
and groups them in the new African
Hall of the Museurp of Natural History
they will help to give a vivid impression
of exactly what real animal life is in
the Jungle.
Camera "ShootlnK" Mon- Fun.
Dr. Akeley declared that the group
would be unsurpassed by that of any
other museum In the world. When he
goes back to the scene of his recent
successful expedition, which he expects
i to do this year, he will take along a
painter to get "the detail of the most
beautiful African forest painting in ex
1 istence, a scene beyond description, with
a volcano in eruption in the back
ground."
The Jungle homes of the girillas. Dr. !
Akeley said, were Just west of Irakis
Nyanza, Victoria, and at the farthest
east part of the Belgian Congo. He
found the great Simians rather gentle
, than otherwise. There was nothing fe
rocious about them and it was not sport
i to shoot them.
Instead of being aggressive, as pic
tured in some reports of the past, they
are timid, he said. It was much more
fun to "shoot" the gorillas with a mov
ing picture camera, a special one of Dr.
Akdey's own design that can take
accurate pictures at a long distance.
