silverback

• I've read the same warnings that say IF CO2 doubles, or IF we burn all coal, or IF the icecaps melt, but for the silverback gorilla's being eaten for meat their problems are a bit more immediate than worrying about it being a bit hotter a hundred years from now. —  RealClimate
• A friend once told him he was like a silverback gorilla, and it was so apt that I have never forgotten it. —  married exploits
• For some of us, this can be done succinctly over IM, but this gentleman is apparently a certified silverback, an alpha-stud extraordinaire, and the incident upsets the delicate ecology of his mating web. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
• The young silverback was the first gorilla to be born at the zoo. —  WREG - CLICK HERE FOR MORE LOCAL NEWS
• Boris was, according to a contemporary, an unmissable figure around Oxford, 'the silverback gorilla, the alpha male', who Cameron, as a socially gauche backroom boy with undeclared political ambitions, must have looked up to in awe. —  Home | Mail Online

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