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gorilla

[ US /ɡɝˈɪɫə/ ]
[ UK /ɡəɹˈɪlɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. largest anthropoid ape; terrestrial and vegetarian; of forests of central west Africa

How To Use gorilla In A Sentence

  • This platform of existence, many millions of years old, continues today with the gorillas and chimpanzees. Times, Sunday Times
  • The gorillas 'behaviour has strong similarities to the children's game tag, but is perhaps more like a playful exchange of punches that must be well-judged to ensure it does not escalate into a more serious fight. Gorillas learn about injustice and revenge by playing tag
  • Man, the surface of the skull is comparatively smooth, and the supraciliary ridges or brow prominences usually project but little — while, in the Gorilla, vast crests are developed upon the skull, and the brow ridges overhang, the cavernous orbits, like great penthouses. Essays
  • I often say gorillas are like that: big and look very fierce and very strong but actually are quite gentle and sensitive. Times, Sunday Times
  • That means that, on the strict taxonomic level, chimps and gorillas are hominids.
  • Mature male gorillas have silver-grey hairs on their backs.
  • On Earth at that time, chimpanzees were splitting from gorillas to form a branch of the ape family tree that led to the evolution of humans. Times, Sunday Times
  • As shown by numerous experiments, chimpanzees and gorillas can be taught to use signs. Cultural Anthropology
  • The new enclosure is brilliant for us as it allows us to give the gorillas the enrichment they need. The Sun
  • But if governments do not act to save mountain gorillas there is little hope that they will act at all. Times, Sunday Times
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