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
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“Winter and summer till old age began
My circus animals were all on show,
Those stilted boys, that burnished chariot,
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