(n.) A large, arboreal, anthropoid ape of West Africa. It is larger than a man, and is remarkable for its massive skeleton and powerful muscles, which give it enormous strength. In some respects its anatomy, more than that of any other ape, except the chimpanzee, resembles that of man.
Example Sentences:
(1) The remaining four positive gorilla sera reacted as HSV-2-positive sera.
(2) We determined four nucleotide sequences of the hominoid immunoglobulin alpha (C alpha) genes (chimpanzee C alpha 2, gorilla C alpha 2, and gibbon C alpha 1 and C alpha 2 genes), which made possible the examination of gene conversions in all hominoid C alpha genes.
(3) The idea behind the box is that it will exercise the gorillas and keep them occupied.
(4) Barra’s main rivals in the single-speed category were Willo and a rider nicknamed Neu York, representing the Gorilla Smash Squad.
(5) Our findings substantially increase the evidence indicative of a human-chimpanzee-gorilla clade with ancestral separations around 8 to 6 Myr ago.
(6) Observed home range use patterns increased the gorillas' foraging efficiency.
(7) Plasma Mg and Ca concentrations were lower than reported captive gorilla means, whereas Na and P were higher.
(8) Two witnesses said they thought the gorilla was trying to protect the boy at first, before getting spooked by the screams of onlookers.
(9) It is to be hoped that the inquiry into how the escape happened will extend to a behavioural study to determine why Kumbuka appears to be so stressed.” Is Kumbuku particularly aggressive or agitated –or is his behaviour just part of being an adult gorilla?
(10) To understand the phylogenetic relationships between hominoids, the nucleotide sequences of immunoglobulin-epsilon processed pseudogenes from chimpanzee, gorilla and orangutan were determined.
(11) Relative to human, no translocations were detected in great apes, except for the well-known fusion-origin of human chromosome 2 and a 5;17 translocation in the gorilla.
(12) The power and versatility of these computer-imaging techniques are demonstrated by examining living subjects with major craniofacial dysmorphology (Treacher-Collins syndrome and unilateral coronal synostosis); an anthropoid osteological specimen (Gorilla); and a fossil mammal skull.
(13) These results demonstrate qualitative differences in the telomeric heterochromatin between Pan and Gorilla despite the fact that these areas appear homogeneous in the two genera by the C-banding method.
(14) In the present study we demonstrate that a representative gorilla haplotype also consists of two short C4 genes and two CYP21 genes, neither of which, however, has the characteristic 8 bp deletion.
(15) The electrophoretic mobilities of human, gorilla and gibbon CBG were similar (RF 0.50-0.51), but differed from Old World monkey CBG (RF 0.44-0.49) and chimpanzee CBG (RF 0.47).
(16) Here, we compare the newly completed sequences of orang-utan and rhesus monkey with human, chimpanzee, gorilla, owl monkey, lemur and goat orthologues.
(17) Civil unrest has also led to the illegal poaching of mountain gorillas.
(18) The Sibley and Ahlquist uncorrected data indicate that Pan is genetically closer to Homo than to Gorilla, but that Gorilla may be genetically closer to Pan than to Homo.
(19) The sequence of the gorilla alpha-fetoprotein gene, including 869 base pairs of the 5' flanking region and 4892 base pairs of the 3' flanking region (24,607 in total), was determined from two overlapping lambda phage clones.
(20) At one point, he and his fellow militias set up base in Virunga national park, famed for its gorillas in the mist , where they survived by eating monkeys and sometimes even elephants.
Guerilla
Definition:
(a.) See Guerrilla.
Example Sentences:
(1) Welcome to Calabria #gestapo#ss#army#military#guerilla#warrior.” “It was not my intention to offend anyone,” he inevitably added later.
(2) Justice Department representatives told one congressional aide that Swartz' Guerilla Open Access Manifesto was being used to establish "malicious intent" to illegally download large amounts of documents.
(3) • Cables from the US ambassador in Kenya sent in 2008 show that the Bush administration was consulted regularly over Nairobi's arming of the Sudanese guerillas, the SPLA .
(4) There has been little public debate on how the legislative programme would work, without imposing a huge load on the Commons timetable for years, and reports last week suggested that pro-European MPs in the Commons might, in the event of a Brexit vote, seek to run a “guerilla campaign” to minimise the number of EU laws from which the UK would withdraw.
(5) In the United States, in 1999, a woman known to her friends and neighbours as Sara Jane Olson living with her family in Minnesota, suddenly found herself arrested for being a member nearly 30 years earlier of the urban guerilla group, the Symbionese Liberation Army – the crew that kidnapped Patty Hearst.
(6) Neutralise the opposition Lobbyists see their battles with opposition activists as "guerilla warfare".
(7) The Bitcoin network is structured like a guerilla movement: it is decentralised, controlled by its users rather than governments.
(8) There were still many problems, not least the poverty affecting half the population, acute degrees of inequality, lingering guerilla conflicts, and a worrying number of kidnappings.
(9) It surely ruined several Valentine's Day plans, but for the few hundred people who somehow found themselves at the latest of Prince's London guerilla gigs, it was worth sacrificing the possible loss of a future spouse for something much more important.
(10) But the US government is suspicious that some of his donations, ostensibly for the rehabilitation of former guerilla fighters, may have found their way to the Tamil Tigers.
(11) The report quotes a source as saying the intention would be to avoid embroiling Lebanon in any military action taken by the Shia group, which has sent guerillas to fight alongside government forces in Syria.
(12) Senior generals have vowed their allegiance to him and have refused to salute Tsvangirai since he became prime minister in 2009, arguing he did not take part in the guerilla war that ended colonial rule and gave Mugabe power in 1980.
(13) The areas of Aleppo controlled by rebel forces The battle for the central city is symbolically important for the guerilla force, which now claims to be in effective control of more than 60% of Aleppo.
(14) Free Syria Army officials in southern Turkey say there are at least four groups not aligned to them who are fighting regime forces, a Libyan guerilla brigade among them, although the actual number is likely to be higher.
(15) Aleppo is now in virtual lockdown ahead of what is expected to be an imminent showdown between loyalist forces and opposition guerillas.
(16) Fighting continued in Syria's two biggest cities, with suburbs of Aleppo again seeing pitched battles between regime forces backed by heavy artillery in the west of the city and guerilla forces in the east.
(17) It is not to be confused with a guerilla war of national liberation.
(18) There are far fewer Yazidis on Mount Sinjar than previously feared,” Kirby said, crediting “the success of the humanitarian air drops, air strikes on [Isis] targets, the efforts of the Peshmerga [Kurdish guerillas] and the ability of thousands of Yazidis to evacuate from the mountain each night over the last several days”.
(19) Matorga Mission is in the Beira Corridor and is guarded by Zimbabwean soldiers as there are dangers of Renamo guerilla raids.
(20) Although some were Mau Mau guerillas, many were victims of collective punishment that colonial authorities imposed on large areas of the country.