Gorillas were unknown to Europeans until the late 1800s. The first scientific description of a gorilla came in 1847 from a missionary, Thomas Savage. A decade later, the first European zoologist confirmed that gorillas existed. Gorillas live in family groups, often led by a single mature male called a silverback (because of the patch of gray hair on its back). He often is the father of all the ...
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