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silverback

[ sil-ver-bak ]

noun

  1. an older male gorilla, usually the leader of a troop, whose hairs along the back turn gray with age.


silverback

/ ˈɪəˌæ /

noun

  1. an older male gorilla with grey hair on its back
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Another former official who was part of meetings with Trump and Boris Johnson said "they were like two silverbacks wrestling", making staff listening in next door cry with laughter.

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Winston, a beloved 52-year-old western lowland gorilla and one of the oldest silverbacks in the world, died Saturday at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, officials announced.

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An admirer called him “the silverback gorilla of nerds.”

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Both babies were sired by Kiburi, a 19-year-old silverback brought to the zoo from Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands as part of a conservation breeding program to help preserve the critically endangered gorilla subspecies.

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It will only work if the group's alpha male, the silverback, is willing to accept the humans - if he does, his family will too.

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