Grauer's gorilla

American  

[grou-erz guh-ril-uh] / ˈgraʊ ərz gəˈrɪl ə /

noun

1. eastern lowland gorilla.

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Etymology

Origin of Grauer's gorilla

First recorded in 1910–15; named after Rudolf Grauer (1870–1927), Austrian zoologist who studied the gorilla in the then Belgian Congo

Example Sentences

Over the past 20 years, 77 percent of Grauer’s gorillas have been lost; a 2015 assessment finds that just 3,800 Grauer’s gorilla remain, compared with 16,900 in 1994.

From Washington Post • Sep. 4, 2016

Arguably the biggest update to the Red List on Sunday was its report on the decline of the Grauer’s gorilla, one of two subspecies of the Eastern gorilla and the world’s largest living primate.

From Washington Post • Sep. 4, 2016

The Rwandan civil war of the early 1990s “hammered” Grauer’s gorilla numbers, according to John Robinson, a primatologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

From The Guardian • Sep. 4, 2016

The population of the world’s largest primate, the Grauer’s gorilla, has dwindled to fewer than 3,800 in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2016

One report, published last week, revealed that numbers of Grauer’s gorilla, the largest of all the great apes, had plunged from 17,000 to fewer than 4,000 over the past 20 years.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2016