Similar words: silver, silverware, silverfish, quicksilver, silver spoon, silver lining, silver screen, silver jubilee. Meaning: n. an adult male gorilla with grey hairs across the back.
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1. I brush my hair 100 strokes at a skirted dressing table, using a silver-backed brush.
2. Only the silverback male leader, Ramar, 36, stayed away.
3. A young silverback mountain gorilla poses on the rim of a volcanic crater with a lake below in the background.
4. Silverback gorilla Kibabu chews on a stick at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney.
5. Male silverback mountain gorillas gain their distinctive silver tinge at about 13 years old[sentencedict.com], when they reach adulthood.
6. But that pattern differs from the one observed in gorillas, where a dominant "silverback" male usually mates with multiple females, and other males are forced to leave the group.
7. Learn how to remove the silverback from rack of lamb for a gourmet lamb chop recipe with expert cooking tips in this free 5-star cuisine video clip.
8. Headed by silverback Kingo, the group contains six females and their playful infants.
9. Needing fuel for his efforts, the silverback soaks in a swamp for hours, methodically stripping and rinsing dirt from herb roots before munching.
10. Last year, a silverback alpha male gorilla, the leader of his group, and three females were shot and killed in Virunga national park, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
11. Ya Kwanza the 27-year-old silverback gorilla managed a few vanity close-ups of himself - before throwing the camera back at his keeper.
12. Each family of gorillas is led by a great silverbacked patriarch.
13. The zoo said that keepers haven't yet named the tiny male, who will grow up to become a 350-pound silverback gorilla.
14. Troops are led by one dominant, older adult male, often called a silverback because of the swath of silver hair that adorns his otherwise dark fur.
15. This photo shows a gorilla family in southeast Cameroon (minus the alpha male silverback, who managed to get away) that had been slaughtered in their nests by a bushmeat hunter early one morning.
16. She's dangled from a cliff in Rwanda, holding onto nothing more than a machete blade, while being charged by a 450-pound silverback mountain gorilla.
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