Comments on: Gorilla Discovery Timeline

By: twblack

twblack — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:34:48 +0000

This is some good reading here on this story. Keep this stuff coming.

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:31:07 +0000

Well, I do remember reading some historical accounts in the Bible about the kingdom of Solomon, and someone brought him a gorilla or ape from africa. Our translation of what exactly the author was talking about only gets as exacting as gorilla or ape, but in anycase, large primates have been known about since the beginning of man’s existance here. It might have taken the european scientists a little time to accept that there might me such a creature, as they almost always do, but anyone willing to venture out knew they were there. Besides, right about the late 1700′s into early 1800′s plenty of people were going into africa to hunt. plenty of the “strange” animals of africa was known.

By: Craig Woolheater

Craig Woolheater — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:30:14 +0000

jjames1,

I don’t know how they chose the word gorilla. I’m guessing they chose it just like any other Bigfoot eyewitness that uses the term to describe what they saw.

The word gorilla comes from “the name derived from the Gorillai, a “tribe of hairy women”, described by Hanno the Navigator, a Carthaginian navigator and possible visitor (circa 480 BCE) to the area that later became Sierra Leone.”

Source: Wikipedia

I will show in an upcoming post that the term gorilla was used in the 19th century print media to describe these creatures.

By: jjames1

jjames1 — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:16:23 +0000

Craig, I think One Eyed Cat may be asking how they chose the word “gorilla” for the animal, not “why are we discussing gorillas here.”

By: Craig Woolheater

Craig Woolheater — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:41:15 +0000

One Eyed Cat said:

I think i missed something how did the word ‘gorilla’ come about?

Reread the first 3 paragraphs of the post above. It explains where the mention of gorilla came about.

By: One Eyed Cat

One Eyed Cat — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:34:22 +0000

I think i missed something how did the word ‘gorilla’ come about?

By: crypto_randz

crypto_randz — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:33:13 +0000

Good Information on this theory. It proves that gorillas are amazing animals with a sense of skill and smarts. If a scientists can ever capture an a living bigfoot it would be amzing study.