Circus Apes
- Gargantua (1929–1949) — acid-scarred gorilla captured in the wild, performed in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
- Toto (1931–1968) — Gargantua's would-be mate
Read more about this topic: List Of Individual Apes
Famous quotes containing the words circus and/or apes:
“One key, one solution to the mysteries of the human condition, one solution to the old knots of fate, freedom, and foreknowledge, exists, the propounding, namely, of the double consciousness. A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and public nature, as the equestrians in the circus throw themselves nimbly from horse to horse, or plant one foot on the back of one, and the other foot on the back of the other.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous for its prey.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)