Grauer's gorilla
Americannoun
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
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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
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 sharp decline of Grauer’s gorilla meant that the larger species to which it belongs, the Eastern gorilla —which also includes the mountain gorilla — was listed as “critically endangered.”
From Washington Post • 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
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