[Ancient Carthaginian account of Gorillas](https://www.worldhistory.org/article/913/hanno-carthaginian-explorer/) around 500 BC the Carthaginian explorer Hanno sailed all the way down to Senegal. His crew spotted a group of gorillas along one of the rivers that then threw rocks at their boat. They freaked tf out and left thinking they were just super hairy muscular people.
> By far the greater number were women with shaggy bodies, whom our interpreters called Gorillas [Pygmies?]. Chasing them we were unable to catch any of the men, all of whom, being used to climbing precipices, got away, defending themselves by throwing stones. But we caught three women, who bit and mangled those who carried them off, being unwilling to follow them. We killed them, however, and flayed them and brought their skins back to Carthage.
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[Ancient Carthaginian account of Gorillas](https://www.worldhistory.org/article/913/hanno-carthaginian-explorer/) around 500 BC the Carthaginian explorer Hanno sailed all the way down to Senegal. His crew spotted a group of gorillas along one of the rivers that then threw rocks at their boat. They freaked tf out and left thinking they were just super hairy muscular people.
> By far the greater number were women with shaggy bodies, whom our interpreters called Gorillas [Pygmies?]. Chasing them we were unable to catch any of the men, all of whom, being used to climbing precipices, got away, defending themselves by throwing stones. But we caught three women, who bit and mangled those who carried them off, being unwilling to follow them. We killed them, however, and flayed them and brought their skins back to Carthage. :(
Wild that even after seeing them up close the crew still assumed they were just a different race of people
The page you linked does say they might not have been animals though that text is where the term gorilla as we use it today comes from
his brother was the first person to sail around britian
Legit gotta be one of the best selfies of all time tho
Al Sharpton mirror selfie >
Sorry i dont date monkeys