Originally Posted By: BAYSTATE YOTEHey,they did not find the gorilla till the early 1900's.
Quote:Troglodytes gorilla Savage, 1847. Thomas Savage described the first gorilla on the basis of a specimen (skull and skeleton) that is now in the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Harvard.
http://www.cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-report/gorilla-timeline/
Quote:There was a time, prior to 1847, when the gorilla was the 'yeti' of Central Africa. It was dismissed as a "silly native legend" until white men saw gorillas for themselves and had to accept that the great ape really did exist! It was the lowland gorilla that was first seen by white men - the mountain gorilla was not 'discovered' until 1901.
http://www.ypte.org.uk/animal/gorilla/123
This is partly because white men ("they") didn't get to gorilla territory until then. Once they did get there, though, there was a lowland gorilla skull waiting for examination.
