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GORILLA MOTHER HONORED FOR SAVING CHILD WHO FELL.(GENERAL NEWS)

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From: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)
Date: 19960826
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LOS ANGELES -- Binti wasn't the first gorilla to save a little boy. More than 80 years ago, Kala rescued an orphan who became "Lord of the Jungle."

A group of fans of Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote the fictional "Tarzan of the Apes" in 1912, on Saturday awarded Binti its first Kala award, named after Tarzan's adoptive gorilla mother.

Bob Cook, a member of the Burroughs Bibliophiles Literary Society, said he saw the parallel when he heard about Binti rescuing a child who fell into the gorilla exhibit at a Chicago-area zoo Aug. 16.

"Kala did almost the same thing," ...

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