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Master Pongo : a gorilla conquers Europe / Mustafa Haikal ; translated by Thomas Dunlap.
LIBRA QL737.P94 H356 2020
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haikal, Mustafa, 1958- author.
- Series:
- Animalibus
- Animalibus : of animals and cultures
- Standardized Title:
- Master Pongo. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Master Pongo (Gorilla), 1874-1877.
- Master Pongo.
- Gorilla--Behavior.
- Gorilla.
- Captive mammals--Germany--Berlin--History--19th century.
- Captive mammals.
- History.
- Germany--Berlin.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 149 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Relates the story of a juvenile gorilla named Pongo, brought to Europe in 1876 and housed at the Unter den Linden Aquarium in Berlin. Examines human-animal interactions and science at a time when the theory of evolution was first gaining ground"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- "Gorilla fever"
- The discovery of a monster
- The research station on the coast of Loango
- A valuable present
- Darwin's felicitations
- The aquarium "Unter den Linden"
- The most popular resident of Berlin
- Under observation
- "The only gorilla is coming"
- Final certainty.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in German in 2013 as Master Pongo : Ein Gorilla erobert Europa" -- title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780271082165
- 027108216X
- OCLC:
- 1111772171
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