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Season 1 • Episode 359: Animal Night: John Daniel the First • Watch with subtitles
Episode 359: Animal Night: John Daniel the First
December 16, 1989
In the 1920s a middle-aged spinster went to buy a yard of ribbon and came out with a baby gorilla. He was the first gorilla to survive captivity. His uncanny intelligence and versatility became legendary, inspiring King Kong stories. But he came to a tragic end when he was shipped to the Barnum and Bailey circus in New York where he pined for his owner and then 'died of a broken heart'.
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