A Mystery Animal in Ancient Africa Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

A deconstruction of a passage in Voyage of Hanno, which purports to describe a Carthaginian expedition down the western coast of Africa in the early centuries B.C. The passage seems to describe a "gorilla," but what is it really? It turns out that in the mid nineteenth century, when Dr. Thomas Savage named the animal that we today call the gorilla, he had borrowed the word from the Voyage. Could the animal described in the passage be Savage’s gorilla? If not, "what is left?" And in Cryptomundo, a look back at the furor in Malaysia four years ago in Johor Juggernaut.