Had you known,
Say the word Gorilla and one's mind will come up with all kinds
imaginative images from King Kong to some chineese movies. The Mountain
Gorillas were not even known about by westerners until 1902. Rwanda
was a German colony when a Captain von Berenge was climbing Mount
Sabinyo on the Rwanda side with some friends and they were at the 9300
foot level and camped when a group of Mountain Gorillas was spotted and
he shot two of them but could only retrieve one. It was a young male
about 5 years old, 220 pounds and not too large, but larger than any
apes the German had seen. Bones and skin were sent to Berlin where it
was identified as a gorilla.
No one had thought that gorillas could exist in such a high
and much colder climate than West Africa. The news of these gorillas
drew hunters to the area, especially the Congo where they shot or
captured Mountain Gorillas. Prince Wilhelm of Sweden shot 14 mountain
gorillas in a 1920-1921 expedition to the area.
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