Sabre-Toothed Gorillas, (PROSE: A letter from the Master) also spelled as sabre-toothed gorillas, (COMIC: The Sabre-Toothed Gorillas) was a species of aggressive primates native to an unnamed planet, which the Second Doctor once compared to Canada.
History[]
The Doctor, John and Gillian encountered a tribe of sabre-toothed gorillas, but were rescued by a professor, who had developed a substance he called squidge. The group used weapons made of squidge to hold off the gorillas until they could make their way back to the TARDIS. (COMIC: The Sabre-Toothed Gorillas)
The Master mentioned in an introduction to Doctor Who Magazine that he once did a bit of "charity work" for a group of jobless Earth colonists, where he gave work placements to the colonists in the Sabre-Toothed Gorilla House of the Galactic Zoo, as a part of "humanitarian aid"; however, his definition of humanitarian aid involved the Sabre-Toothed Gorillas eating the colonists, which the Master decided not to speak of in case he brought on the negative attention of the Time Lords. (PROSE: A letter from the Master)
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Sabre-toothed gorillas were one of the creatures the Tenth Doctor warned Martha Jones about that could be outside the TARDIS doors when they arrived on Myarr. (TV: The Infinite Quest)