Funny World: Funny Gorilla

The American physician and missionary Thomas Staughton Savage and naturalist Jeffries Wyman first described the western gorilla (they called it Troglodytes gorilla) in 1847 from specimens obtained in Liberia. The name was derived from Greek Γόριλλαι (Gorillai), meaning "tribe of hairy women", described by Hanno the Navigator, a Carthaginian navigator.