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She hired some gorilla as her bodyguard.
the loan shark sent a couple of gorillas to “convince” him to pay up
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There are numerous instances of anxiety-prone chimps and gorillas repeatedly redigesting their food and eating their own feces.
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2025
Unlike the chimpanzees and gorillas passively consuming different medicinal plants, this is the first time any animal has been seen treating a wound directly with healing plants.
—Ryan McRae, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
That’s nowhere clearer than in the climactic final confrontation between Noa and Proximus Caesar’s brute in command, an imposing gorilla named Sylva (Eka Darville), which takes place within a gargantuan armory that’s flooding quickly around them.
—Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Neal Rubin used to own a gorilla suit, but has never dressed as a lion.
—Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2025
Unlike the chimpanzees and gorillas passively consuming different medicinal plants, this is the first time any animal has been seen treating a wound directly with healing plants.
—Ryan McRae, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
That’s nowhere clearer than in the climactic final confrontation between Noa and Proximus Caesar’s brute in command, an imposing gorilla named Sylva (Eka Darville), which takes place within a gargantuan armory that’s flooding quickly around them.
—Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Neal Rubin used to own a gorilla suit, but has never dressed as a lion.
—Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Gorilla.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gorilla. Accessed 26 Jan. 2025.
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gorilla
noun
go·ril·la
gə-ˈril-ə 
: a typically black ape of equatorial Africa that is much larger but stands less erect than the related chimpanzee
Etymology
derived from Greek Gorillai, a name used by ancient explorers for what they thought was a tribe of hairy women in Africa
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