Changes: White Apes

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The White Apes are a feared race of semi-intelligent, gorilla-like monsters who inhabit the wilds of Barsoom, particularly the Toonolian Marshes and the Valley Dor. Their Barsoomian name has never been mentioned. They are large creatures with an average height of 12 to 14 feet, and like the Green Martians, they possess two sets of arms , the lower arms serving either as extra hands or extra feet. As with almost all other Martian fauna, they are almost completely hairless, save for a shock of white hair on top of their heads.

In addition to living in the wild, the apes have been known to haunt the abandoned cities, like Korus, where John Carter and his faithful calot Woola nearly lost their lives to a pair of apes, and Aanthor, where the apes have run into the Green hordes so often that some of them have taken to wearing crude harnesses made from the skin of banths. They seem to have an interest in using human dwellings for shelter; when Ulysses S. Paxton encountered them outside of Ras Thavas' lab, his friend Hovan Du, who had the brain of a human but the body of a white ape, managed to negotiate with the apes for safe passage, in exchange for Carter and his mates leaving the gate to Thavas' lab open. Paxton asked Hovan Du why the apes requested this, but Hovan Du only replied that the apes' reasons were their own.

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-The '''White Apes''' are a feared race of semi-intelligent, gorilla-like monsters who inhabit the wilds of [[Barsoom|Barsoom]], particularly the [[Toonolian Marshes|Toonolian Marshes]] and the [[Valley Dor|Valley Dor]]. They also tend to haunt the abandoned cities, like Aanthor, where they have run into the [[Green Martians|Green hordes]] so often that some of them have taken to wearing crude harnesses made from the skin of [[Banth|banths]].
+The '''White Apes''' are a feared race of semi-intelligent, gorilla-like monsters who inhabit the wilds of [[Barsoom|Barsoom]], particularly the [[Toonolian Marshes|Toonolian Marshes]] and the [[Valley Dor|Valley Dor]]. Their Barsoomian name has never been mentioned. They are large creatures with an average height of 12 to 14 feet, and like the [[Green Martians|Green Martians]], they possess two sets of arms , the lower arms serving either as extra hands or extra feet. As with almost all other Martian fauna, they are almost completely hairless, save for a shock of white hair on top of their heads.
+In addition to living in the wild, the apes have been known to haunt the abandoned cities, like [[Korus|Korus]], where [[John Carter|John Carter]] and his faithful [[Calot|calot]] [[Woola|Woola]] nearly lost their lives to a pair of apes, and [[Aanthor|Aanthor]], where the apes have run into the Green hordes so often that some of them have taken to wearing crude harnesses made from the skin of [[Banth|banths]]. They seem to have an interest in using human dwellings for shelter; when [[Ulysses S. Paxton|Ulysses S. Paxton]] encountered them outside of [[Ras Thavas|Ras Thavas]]' lab, his friend Hovan Du, who had the brain of a human but the body of a white ape, managed to negotiate with the apes for safe passage, in exchange for Carter and his mates leaving the gate to Thavas' lab open. Paxton asked Hovan Du why the apes requested this, but Hovan Du only replied that the apes' reasons were their own.
 [[Category:Fauna]]