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US
/ɡɝˈɪɫə/
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[ UK /ɡəɹˈɪlɐ/ ]
[ UK /ɡəɹˈɪlɐ/ ]
NOUN
- 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