silverback in English

noun

1

a mature male mountain gorilla, distinguished by an area of white or silvery hair across the back and acting as the dominant member of its social group.

Then another gorilla shows up below her, this one a silverback , or mature male, that appears to weigh at least 400 pounds.

Use "silverback" in a sentence

1. Burbark Silverback is a male gorilla

2. Only the silverback male leader, Ramar, stayed away.

3. Bossy's silverback is coming out of the gates swingin'

4. Silverback gorilla Kibabu chews on a stick at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney.

5. “The male, a huge silverback about 35 years old, towered over me.

6. Headed by silverback Kingo, the group contains six females and their playful infants.

7. Matted down in the soft vegetation is the bed, or nest, of the silverback gorilla.

8. The zoo said that keepers haven't yet named the tiny male, who will grow up to become a 350-pound silverback gorilla.

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. 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.

11. Furthermore, IAS and Silverback Cargo Freighters are on the European Union list of air carriers whose operations are subject to a ban within the Community

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.