Bobby: the gorilla on the wrong side of the law

The western lowland gorilla was smuggled from Africa to Italy in the 1980s. As taxidermy, he is part of a new exhibition at the National Museum of ScotlandName: BobbySpecies: Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)Dates: 1983-2008Claim to fame: Much-loved zoo animalWhere now:National Museum of ScotlandIn 1994, magistrates from the Italian province of Ancona found the manager of a local circus guilty of importing a gorilla into the country. Bobby (variously also known as Bongo, Bongo III and Bongo Junior) had been captured as a baby in Equatorial Guinea more than a decade earlier and is thought to have been brought to Italy soon afterwards as “a chimpanzee”.Continue reading...
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