Ota Benga (c. 1883[2] – March 20, 1916) was a Mbuti (Congo pygmy) man, known for being featured in an exhibit at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, and as a human zoo exhibit in 1906 at the Bronx Zoo.

Dec 2, 2008 · Ota Benga, a pygmy, was born somewhere in a forest in Congo around 1883. He married young and started a family. One day he returned from elephant hunting to find his village slaughtered, and...

Jul 31, 2020 · There, amid the cages full of exotic animals, they found a human: Ota Benga, a member of the Mbuti pygmy tribe from what was then known as the Congo Free State. Though he was just 23 years...

Mar 23, 2024 · Ota Benga was a Congolese member of the Mbuti pygmy tribe whose tragic story got international attention when he was displayed as a human zoo exhibit in the United States in the early twentieth century. Ota Benga was born in …

Mar 22, 2016 · The shocking story of Ota Benga, the Congolese pygmy kidnapped and held captive as a human anthropology exhibit in the Bronx Zoo. Shocking photos and facts behind one of history's most appalling tales of racism.

Jun 3, 2015 · During September of 1906, nearly a quarter of a million New Yorkers flocked to the Bronx Zoo to behold a young African named Ota Benga – a so-called “pygmy” – exhibited in an iron monkey house...

In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short. The term pygmyism is used to describe the phenotype of endemic short stature (as opposed to disproportionate dwarfism occurring in isolated cases in a population) for populations in which adult men are on average less than 150 cm (4 ft 11 in) tall.

Apr 26, 2012 · Why the Pygmies of West Africa have such short stature, while neighboring groups don't, has been somewhat of a mystery. Now new research suggests unique changes in the Pygmy's genome have...

Mar 30, 2012 · And yet Americans were forever calling him “boy”—in part because, as one of the Congolese tribe of Mbuti pygmies, he stood less than five feet tall and weighed only 103 pounds. He spoke no English....

Aug 5, 2012 · Someone might be called a "Pygmy" because by someone who does not like them. Also, more of a distracting complexity than negative meaning, the term "Pygmy" is often …