Noun:

ஆப்பிரிக்க குரங்கு வகை,

gorillas's Usage Examples:

It was long supposed that the apes encountered on an island off the west coast of Africa by Hanno, the Carthaginian, were gorillas, but in the XII.

Even when asleep and snoring, gorillas are difficult to approach, since they awake at the slightest rustle, and an attempt to surround the one heard making his bed by the woman resulted in failure.

Fully adult gorillas have never been seen alive in captivity - and perhaps never will be, as the creature is ferocious and morose to a degree.

Each of these apes resembles man most in some one physical characteristic: the gibbons in the formation of the teeth, the orangs in the brain-structure, the gorillas in size, and the chimpanzees in the sigmoid flexure of the spine.

According to native report, the gorillas sleep on these beds, which are of sufficient thickness to raise them a foot or two above the ground, in a sitting posture, with the head inclined forwards on the breast.

In the first case Mr Bates states that the tracks and beds indicated the presence of three or four gorillas, some of which were small.

Still the large size and prominence of the ears proclaim that both "Mafuka" and "Johanna" were chimpanzees and not gorillas.

) states that gorillas only leave the depths of the forest to enter the outlying clearings in the neighbourhood of human settlements when they are attracted by some special fruit or succulent plant; the favourite being the fruit of the "mejom," a tall cane-like plant (perhaps a kind of Amomum) which grows abundantly on deserted clearings.

This type of evolutionary event not only led to the evolution of modern humans but also of modern chimpanzees and modern gorillas.

Deep in the jungles of Rwanda live some of the last mountain gorillas on earth.

Most gorillas killed by natives are believed by Mr Bates to have been encountered suddenly in the daytime on the ground or in low trees in the outlying clearings.

Asia, the orangs of Borneo and Sumatra, the gorillas of W.

Synonyms:

Gorilla gorilla, great ape, Gorilla gorilla grauri, mountain gorilla, Gorilla gorilla gorilla, western lowland gorilla, genus Gorilla, pongid, Gorilla gorilla beringei, eastern lowland gorilla, silverback,

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