gorilla
大猩猩,猩猩,猩红,猩红猩猩
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- : a terrestrial, largely vegetarian great ape of the genus Gorilla, inhabiting central African forests: possessing great upper body strength, with arms longer and more muscular than its legs, it is noted for its knuckle-walking and is larger than any other living primate.See also Cross River gorilla, eastern gorilla, eastern lowland gorilla, mountain gorilla, western gorilla, western lowland gorilla.
- : an ugly, brutish person.
- : Slang. a hoodlum or thug, especially one who threatens or inflicts violence: Like any mob boss, he sent his gorillas to do the dirty work.
- : Disparaging and Offensive.
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Francine Patterson is the animal psychologist who became famous for training Koko the gorilla to communicate using what she called “Gorilla Sign Language.”
BlackRock, Wall Street’s 800-pound gorilla, is putting climate change risk at the center of its investing strategy.
The San Diego Zoo’s description of an October incident when gorillas in an exhibit got into a rumble and broke a layer of the window glass separating the animals from peopleEven the gorillas are sick of this year.
He’s the 900-pound gorilla when it comes to the Republican Party.
As she imaged more and more, “I started to get a feel for the difference between human and gorilla hearts,” says Kutinsky.
Sitting up there at that little spindly-legged organ, he looked enormous, bigger than life, like a gorilla at a harpsichord.
Then twelve guys come out and beat the gorilla over the head.
Kerr was adamant that the gorilla tie was not a statement about evolution, but “about life.”
In Uganda, the World Wildlife Fund estimates each gorilla rakes in $1 million in revenue each year.
A hunter comes across a sickly gorilla, too weak to defend itself from the blows of his cleaver.
Again, we have the fact that man possesses normally only twelve ribs, one less than is found in the gorilla and the chimpanzee.
The young gorilla which was kept in captivity at Berlin became quite omnivorous in its diet.
It is shortest in the chimpanzee, somewhat longer in the gorilla, still longer in the orang, and remarkably long in the gibbon.
It would be as useful to attempt to give the history of the gorilla as of man in the early stages of his progress.
The "Gorilla Warfare" (mentioned last week) having failed, the enemy tries a new dodge.