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Gargantua the Great a famed circus gorilla dies at 20
Gargantua the Great, a 5 ft 7 in gorilla weighing 312 pounds, enjoyed celebrity status for 13 circus seasons. Sold to Mrs Gertrude Lintz for 3500 dollars, he inspired modern myth with a snarling left lip from acid damage and a famed name chosen by Henry Ringling North. He toured with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey until his death in 1949 at age 20 from asthma pneumonia and skin cancer, remembered as best old slob in the world.
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Gene Plowden
Arasota, Fla
Gargantua the Great
United States
Canada
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S. Dillon Ripley
Peabody Museum
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Buddy
Henry Ringling North
Circus
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Ringling Bros. and
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Gargantua