gorilla
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“Winter weather is really the 800-pound gorilla that swings it one way or another as a known unknown factor,” he said.
Similar cases involving cheetahs from Syria, a gorilla from Haiti, and bonobos from Iraq are among those questioned by CITES.
From Barron's
Two fossils shared an amino acid sequence found in humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas, while the others had a version so far unique to Paranthropus.
From Science Daily
YouTube TV has become an 800-pound gorilla in the media business.
These included seven hominid species, or "great apes,"** such as humans, gorillas and chimpanzees, and nine hylobatid species, or "lesser apes,"*** such as gibbons.
From Science Daily
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