This is no ordinary geocaching trading item!

Koolookamba is a Travel Bug Dog Tag Travel Bug, traveling from geocache to geocache on a very specific mission.

If you do not intend to log your visit on the Geocaching.com web site, please DO NOT TAKE THIS ITEM. Its travels and its progress requires you to log that it is being taken from this geocache. You will also need to log when you place it in another geocache. It's easy!

If you are willing to log your part of this Trackable's journey and place it in another geocache as soon as possible (after you log your find), grab it from this geocache.

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In 1860, the French-American explorer Paul du Chaillu became famous as the first modern outsider to describe the existence of gorillas in Central Africa. After his expedition, he also claimed, in his controversial 1861 book, Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa, to have discovered a species he called the Koolookamba.
 
In fact, du Chaillu shot a male primate in southwest Gabon and described it as a new sub-species of chimpanzee, smaller than an adult male gorilla, but stockier than a female gorilla. He declared it more closely resembled a man than any other ape and that its name mimicked its call of "Kooloo, kooloo."
 
The controversy lingers as Du Chaillu’s description differs from subsequent reports. The skeleton of du Chaillu’s Koolookamba can still be seen in the British Museum of Natural History, but its features resemble those of a mountain gorilla (rather than a lowland gorilla), so it’s impossible that this was a type of mountain chimpanzee. In Gabon today, 150 years after du Chaillu’s first expedition, there remains a belief among the human population in a chimpanzee-gorilla hybrid, which they still call the ‘Kool-kamba’.