The fugitive collided with one of the policemen who ran to head him off, sending him sprawling down the slope; indeed, the fugitive seemed inspired with the strength of a wild ape.

It was humiliating enough to make such a statement to wild apes about this hated enemy.

I'm spinnin aroun like a top an I got a wild ape loose in here to boot!

This was usually discouraged in case the wild ape became too dependent on hand-outs.

'They'll be like a band of wild apes,' he said.

And the older Terrans like him because one night, in a driving rainstorm, he heard an odd something and went outside to find some kind of wild ape lost and trying to get under cover.

It was a wild tailored ape.

The shocking statistic is that if the slaughter continues at its current pace, the remaining wild apes in Africa will be gone within the next 15 to 50 years - a long time, but it will soon go if we do not stop this trade.

Maybe the murderer was actually a wild ape, and his tranquilizers were wearing off.