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- noun Plural form of
silverback .
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Examples
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Adult males are called silverbacks because their hair greys with age.
ABC News: ABCNews 2009
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Upside: Mature male gorillas, called silverbacks, are huge (up to 425 lb., sometimes even more).
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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Adult males are called silverbacks because their hair greys with age.
ABC News: ABCNews 2009
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Adult males are called silverbacks because their hair turns grey with age.
ABC News: ABCNews 2009
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Adult males are called silverbacks because their hair turns grey with age.
ABC News: ABCNews 2009
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Dominant gorillas are known as "silverbacks" because their coats change colour to highlight their status as alpha male
BBC News - Home 2011
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"Troy is certainly heir to the throne of alpha male, so there's going to be that natural organic energy of conflict that happens between the silverbacks and the branch crashers as we say in primatology."
Is Community Really Going to Be "Less Weird" This Year? 2011
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Gorillas should be exchanging dark and disturbing tales about how a group of silverbacks were shot dead in a national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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It was no surprise when his feet turned toward his tower library, following the same unerring instinct that brought pigeons to their dovecotes and silverbacks to their streams.
THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010
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When the going really gets tough, the big social apes (chimps, gorillas) tend to take their lead from the old silverbacks in the troop -- experience trumps strength and dominance.
In Statement On Economy, Obama Stresses Need For "Bipartisan Spirit" 2009
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