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October 14, 2024 110 mins

In memoriam to the bad shows we found along the way, John talks about Gorillas way too much.

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Hunting Monsters: Cryptozoology and the Reality Behind the Myths , Naish, Darren 

The Chauvet-Pont d'Arc cave

Etymology of zoology by etymonline

When the World’s Population Took Off: The Springboard of the Neolithic Demographic Transition | Science

The Internet Classics Archive | The History of Animals by Aristotle

Galen's Analogy: Animal Experimentation and Anatomy in the Second Century CE

Galen's “errors” - The Lancet

Rocky Road: Conrad Gesner

Historical Anatomies on the Web: Conrad Gessner Home

Historiae Animalium | ODD SALON

Zoology Timeline

First Voyage of Captain James Cook | Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

The Nature of Systematics - Blackwelder and Boyden

Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids 

A Carthaginian Exploration of the West African Coast.

Gorilla Biology - Taylor and Goldsmith

Les betes humaines d'Afrique by Heuvelmans, Bernard; [Mackal, Roy] - 1980

The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell by Andrew Battell.

Skeptoid: Tracking the Elusive Pongo

The missionary and the gorilla | Features | Yale Alumni Magazine

1. From Satyr to Pongo: Discovering the Red Ape

An account of the diseases, natural history, and medicines of the East Indies / Translated from the Latin of James Bontius 

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