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The sample included gorillas, orangutans, macaques, colobus monkeys, fossil apes and more.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

The song compares clubbers to jungle animals, and he's accompanied on stage by gorillas and lions.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

The zoologist George Schaller traveled the globe to get up close and personal with tigers, gorillas and other animals.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Attenborough's natural history series, such as "Life on Earth", in which he had a famous encounter with mountain gorillas in Rwanda, have brought the most remote corners of the planet into living rooms worldwide.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

Ridgeway fell in with a circle of slave catchers, gorillas stuffed into black suits with ridiculous derbies.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead