Sentence examples for a captive gorilla from inspiring English sources

A captive gorilla doesn't have that option.

"He's expressing himself verbally," John Lloyd declared as the match tipped Murray's way, making him sound like a captive gorilla asking for a new football.

Captive groups of Western Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) were observed in three European zoos (Basel and Zurich, Switzerland and La Vallée des Singes, France), and wild gorillas were studied at Mbeli Bai, Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, Republic of Congo.

A previous study using microsatellite markers in captive gorilla populations showed that their genetic diversity is comparable to wild gorilla populations [ 11].

The U.S. contains the world's largest number of zoos, and the greatest number of captive gorilla births have occurred here.

To determine the effects of relative novelty on captive gorilla behavior, the regular alternation of two groups between complex naturalistic enclosures was studied at Zoo Atlanta.

In October 1991, a silverback named Timmy (1959 2011) was taken away from Kate, his infertile companion at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, in the hopes of breeding lowland gorillas and introducing new genes into the captive gorilla gene pool.

Up until the time Lulu gave birth, it had been very difficult to get captive gorilla mothers to raise their young in zoos because the babies would either be rejected by the mother or they would be taken away by the handlers.

To further investigate infection in the STLV-4-positive gorillas, we tested plasma samples available from the three captive gorillas using an HTLV-1/2 Western blot kit previously shown to detect antibodies in the HTLV-4-infected hunter.

Braitman reports on the "blank stares" of captive gorillas and elephants; a marine biologist who she speaks with believes that "suicide in captive whales and dolphins is possible," located "on a continuum with the other self-injurious things they do, like swimming in compulsive patterns or bashing their heads against the sides of their tanks".

Captive gorillas have made a variety of tools.