Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is considered an easy theme, much easier than that of two years ago-"THE COLORING OF THE MOUNTAIN BECOMES MORE BRILLIANT"-a stumper which proved difficult to get into the requisite tanka form of 31 syllables, in lines of five, seven, five, seven and seven syllables (TIME...
...should ask you What is the heart Of Island Yamato- It is the mountain cherry-blossom Which exhales its perfume in the morning...
...Coast skulls he has studied are grouped as West Cameroons, Cameroons and Gaboon. The eastern Congo or Mountain skulls are grouped as Kiva and Eastern Mountain gorillas...
...curves of variation which resulted. On these he discovered that certain measurements showed sufficiently great differences between regions to warrant calling them different subspecies. Study of the curves forced him to divide the species into Gorilla gorilla gorilla (Savage & Wyman) or Coast, and Gorilla gorilla beringei (Matschie) or Mountain. It happens that the first of these races is the one found on the West Coast of Central Africa and the second race is found in the mountains of the Eastern Congo separated from the first by 750 miles of tropical jungle...
...conclusion is that "the gorilla, particularly the adult male, shows a large individual variation even within the limits of a small area; that there is no difference in kind between the Coast and the Mountain Gorillas such as to justify making of them two separate species, but that there is a distinct difference in degree sufficiently important to constitute a subspecific difference between the two groups...