I want to thank Paul B. for sending this to me. Mystery as severed GORILLA arm washes up on a beach in Ireland.
Analysis found that the limb was from an animal, and it was soon determined to be a large primate. It is most likely that the arm comes from a gorilla, although local news reported possible other options, such as a chimpanzee.
Local authorities are now embarking on trying to unravel the mystery of where the several gorilla skeleton arm may have come from.
‘From Kilkee side out, I think the next land you meet from there is America so I don’t know, I really haven’t a clue,’ Clare County Council dog warden Frankie Coote told RTE.
‘We’re used to getting calls where farm animals wash up or a dog, a seal or anything like that, but this is an unusual one.
‘It’d be nice to get to the bottom of it and know exactly what it is and where it may have come from.’
Mr Coote has been taking care of the arm after it was released by Gardai. After police determined that the remains were not human, the handed it back to the council.
Mr Coote says he is currently storing the gorilla arm in his freezer.