The western Gorilla was initially described in 1847 by American doctors and missionaries Thomas Staughton Savage and Jeffries Wyman using samples collected in Liberia. Hanno is said to have brought back skins of gorilla women, which are said to have been stored at Carthage until Rome destroyed the city 350 years later, in 146 BC, after the Punic Wars.
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