Toto (gorilla)
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Toto (1931 - 1968) was a gorilla that was adopted and raised very much like a human child.
Mrs. A. Maria Hoyt adopted the baby female gorilla orphaned by a hunt in French Equatorial Africa in 1931. Mrs. Hoyt moved to Cuba to provide a more tropical home for Toto. At the age of four or five, Toto adopted a kitten named Principe, carrying the kitten with her everywhere. When Toto became too difficult to manage for a private keeper, she was sold to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus as a potential mate for another gorilla, Gargantua, aka Buddy. Toto died in 1968.
See Toto and I: A Gorilla in the Family (1941) by A. Maria Hoyt. Also Eve & the Apes (1988) by Emily Hahn.
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