One function of a gorilla's chest-beating is to frighten younger gorillas with overly high spirits
the celebration of a recent victory
to call the other troop members to the feeding area
to establish which gorilla is the leader of a troop
communication with the other members of the troop
According to the passage scientists have found shorter gorillas to be more violent
only the leader of the troop of gorillas beats his chest
gorillas beat their chests for various reasons
a gorilla's charge never needs to be taken seriously
gorillas are easily trained to appear in films
After a fight with his opponent, the gorilla does not act triumphantly
beats his chest as an expression of relief
breaks the opponent's backbone
drums his chest furiously
behaves exactly as portrayed in films
37 LOVE For most of us, love is the most absorbing subject in existence. There is an enormous range of meanings in this one little word: motherly love and self-love, fatherly love and children's love fc their parents; there is brotherly love and there is the love of one's home and one's country; there is love of money and there is love of power. Love clearly includes all of these, but the love in which one can be oneself is the pre-eminent love for most of us. Love at its fullest can include an enormous range of emotions and sentiments. It can combine humility with pride, passion with peace, selfassertion with self-surrender; it can reconcile violence of feeling with tenderness. "Being in love" is love at its most intense, and is personally focused in a very special way. Our common speech reflects this fact, as we talk of "falling in love" as if it were something into which we are precipitated against our will, like falling into a pond.