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World Service,4 mins

African man displayed in a zoo

Newsday

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What happened to Ota Benga? The Congolese man who was put on display in a New York zoo alongside an orangutan as the "missing link" between man and ape. Find out more from Pamela Newkirk, author of Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga. (Picture: Ota Benga on the cover of Pamela Newkirk's book on his life. Credit: Harper Collins)

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