Among the animals he had a great reputation for courage.
They used to say of him that he
feared no one but his foster-mother, Akka.
And they could also say of him that he never
used violence against a wild goose.
IN CAPTIVITY
Gorgo was only three years...
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Among the animals he had a great reputation for courage.
They used to say of him that he
feared no one but his foster-mother, Akka.
And they could also say of him that he never
used violence against a wild goose.
IN CAPTIVITY
Gorgo was only three years old, and had not as yet thought about marrying and procuring a
home for himself, when he was captured one day by a hunter, and sold to the Skansen
Zoölogical Garden, where there were already two eagles held captive in a cage built of iron
bars and steel wires.
The cage stood out in the open, and was so large that a couple of trees
had easily been moved into it, and quite a large cairn was piled up in there.
Notwithstanding all this, the birds were unhappy.
They sat motionless on the same spot
nearly all day.
Their pretty, dark feather dresses became rough and lustreless, and their
eyes were riveted with hopeless longing on the sky without.
During the first week of Gorgo s captivity he was still awake and full of life, but later a
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