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1893 Barnum & Bailey Circus 'Great Black Orang" (?) Poster - Circus World Museum

Taken August 15 2018

1893 Barnum & Bailey Circus 'Great Black Orang" (?) Poster - Circus World Museum
birdsandbats, 12 Feb 2019
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    • birdsandbats
      So what was this guy? A melansitic orangutan? A gorilla?
      12 Feb 2019
    • Chlidonias
      It is Johanna the female Chimpanzee which the circus obtained in 1893. They already had Chiko, who they correctly identified as a Chimpanzee. Barnum knew quite well that Johanna was a Chimpanzee, but labelled her as either a "black orang" or a Gorilla because there were no live Gorillas in captivity at this point (there had been a few very short-lived babies in Europe before this; the first to arrive in America wasn't until 1897).
      13 Feb 2019
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