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...MOUNTAIN GORILLA Weight: 90 kg to 181+ kg From: Africa Secret Weapon: Intimidating nostrils...
...Their lifestyle does, however, make them the easiest apes for humans to identify with. Because of their more solitary nature, orangutans display a more contemplative intelligence than the often frenetic chimpanzee or the gigantic, seemingly dopey gorilla. One look into an orangutan's almost human, emotion-charged eyes, and there's no denying our intimate kinship...
...Family" was really a years-long territorial war fought in the home (it's no accident the character's name was "Bunker"). O'Connor played Archie like a shambling, endangered silverback gorilla prowling and growling futilely around the carpeted perimeter of his living room. The values he developed through the depression and a war were fraying and decaying like his upholstered TV-watching throne. (The prominence of his other throne - the upstairs toilet whose on-air flushing was so shocking three decades ago - underscored the theme of Archie as an Astoria King Lear...
...Harvard’s the eight-hundred-pound gorilla. I know that,” says Chair of the Allston Community Task Force Ray Mellone. “I’m not afraid of anybody talking about concepts, anybody talking about ideas. Harvard may be developing a lot of plans with their school of architecture. It’s their money, it’s their university, it’s their land. But there’s no way anything’s going to be built without going through...
...years, Southwest has grudgingly played on the airline-industry team. It has long been a member of the Air Transport Association, the Beltway's 800-pound lobbyist gorilla that for years has been aggressive - and successful - in defending major airlines' interests. But not a happy one, and in 1997, after a few instances of getting what it thought was the brush-off from several members of Congress, the notoriously independent-minded Dallas-based airline broke down and opened its own lobbying office in the nation's capital...