1855
I was just sitting here wondering when Europeans first found out about gorillas. I had a vague idea it was sometime in the mid-19th century, but I was unsure because that just seems so recent. It would mean that Thomas Jefferson never had a gorilla thought, for instance. So I asked the internet. And it turns out I was right. The amazing thing is that it was so easy to find out.
posted by Charles P. Everitt at 9:34 PM
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Well, technically, it is possible that Thomas Jefferson had a gorilla thought. Native or South Americans may have known about gorillas well before Europeans, and this information may have been transmitted to the red headed Virginian while he was living in the New World.
In some sense.
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