hippo bones

So it was to their horror, after hours of hunting, that To-yat and his apes discovered their sacred quarry tormenting a Duro, which was their word for hippopotamus.
How the hapless hippopotamus should come to fall into the mighty clutches of Go-pand-usen, they did not know, for they were not witness to the event.
What the tribe did behold, at a place where the savanna gave into a dense thicket of thorny brush, was the tremendous monster standing alone, holding a flailing hippopotamus in both hands and shaking it angrily.
With each titanic shake, the hippo gave out horrible noises, and the sounds of its ribs and bones grinding and crunching could be heard unmistakably.


King Kong vs Tarzan, Chapter 62