WILLIAM HARRIS wrote:
> According to Yale Alum Mag, Western knowledge of the African gorilla dates only from the 1840s.
> A Yalie brought back a skull from Gabon in 1847 and worked on the taxonomy.
> The previous 400 years there were no European sighting nor evidence.
> No wonder several thousand were just discovered. And no wonder King Kong was such a hit in the 1930s.
How is this possible? Europeans had been in “colonial” Africa since the15th century, right? You’re telling me that, at no point in 400 years, does someone turn up at a meat market with a haunch o’ gorilla? Don’t they *still* eat monkey/ape meat in Africa?