(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.
Silverback
Definition:
(n.) The knot.
Example Sentences:
(1) The building in question on Sunday was Hofstra University's soccer stadium in Long Island – current home to the NASL champion Cosmos (they won the league’s Soccer Bowl last year, by winning the fall season in their first campaign back, then beating the spring champions, and Sunday’s opponents, Atlanta Silverbacks, in the final in Atlanta).
(2) In the other game Atlanta Silverbacks held out till the 44th minute against the Seattle Sounders, but Andy Rose's opener was the first of 5 as they were swept aside in their relocated "home" tie.
(3) Within an hour of the finish of the last of the second round games, fans of NASL side Atlanta Silverbacks were furious to discover that a potential home tie against Seattle was now an away fixture, after Seattle had essentially bought the right to host the tie from the Silverbacks' owners - but with their big home crowds the Sounders have the resources and the will to take advantage of the rules as they currently stand.
(4) Tanya Plibersek – not an unambitious woman – defers so neatly to Shorten that she delegates a proxy when obliged to vote against him, and, unlike a paranoid silverback, the opposition leader isn’t keeping his youngsters down.
(5) The large silverback sat at the very front of the enclosure, his back turned to the glass.
(6) Outside politics and the BBC, and anywhere else Farage’s “big silverback gorillas” are not delightedly deferred to, the lingering presence of pension-defying, grandparent-age colleagues can, one gathers, be distinctly unwelcome to co-workers – and not only those hoping for promotion within the next century or so.
(7) The bottom line here is that Riyadh, emboldened by renewed US support and alarmed by the gains of Iran, is reclaiming the role of silverback.
(8) London zoo says no member of the public was at risk, yet the incident inevitably has echoes of the incident at Cincinnati zoo in May, when a three-year-old boy was able to climb into the enclosure of a large silverback called Harambe , which was shot dead before the child was harmed.
(9) Shock at the killing of a splendid young silverback, Harambe, mixed with relief that the four-year-old boy came through it relatively unscathed (though doubtless traumatised).
(10) Malcolm Fitzpatrick, senior curator of mammals for the zoo, said “categorically … that our male silverback gorilla Kumbuka did not break through any glass”.
(11) The silverback gorilla whose escape sent ZSL London Zoo into lockdown made an “opportunistic” exit through two unlocked doors into a corridor where a keeper was working, the zoo said.
(12) I have been charged by a nervous female who thought I was too close to a member of her group, a blackback (adolescent) male who I was filming feeding; I have been walloped and bowled over by boisterous blackbacks, treating me just like one of the family, and on occasion, been on the receiving end of defensive silverbacks giving their awe-inspiring screaming charge.
(13) A silverback gorilla that escaped from its enclosure at London zoo has broken panes of glass at the attraction at least twice, the zoo has confirmed.
(14) When the Gorilla Doctors need to anaesthetise a member of a wild gorilla group in Rwanda, Uganda or DRC, a line of courageous park staff stand between the silverback and the patient, giving the vets time to operate to remove a snare or treat a wound.
(15) Clearly if a silverback wanted to kill a child, he could do so in an instant.
(16) 4th round: Carolina Railhawks vs Chivas USA Bracket 8 Seattle Sounders 5-1 Atlanta Silverbacks This was the game that had the city of Atlanta, and the state of Georgia, in an outrage against their hometown Silverbacks - for giving away their home team status to the Seattle Sounders.
(17) And then there's Atlanta , home of the Silverbacks, and perhaps most importantly a name that has cropped up more than once out of the mouth of the commissioner when discussing possible expansion teams, not least because it's the largest television market without an MLS franchise.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ian Redmond grooms Pablo, a silverback mountain gorilla, for parasitology research in Karisoke, Rwanda.
(19) This is a family of five western lowland gorillas (they originate from central Africa, but were born in captivity in Europe): the silverback male, Badongo; his three women, Kishka, Bahasha and Kahilli, and her one-year-old baby, Indigo, live together in a happy harem.
(20) When stressed, silverbacks strut and display their strength – often by dragging vegetation, group members or other objects (including humans) – but this is not a forest with soft leaf-litter but a zoo enclosure of concrete and rock, so such behaviour carries more risk to the unfortunate person being dragged.