Chimpanzee vs Blackback - What's the difference?
chimpanzee | blackback |
A great ape of the genus Pan , native to Africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans.
(zoology) An adolescent male gorilla or chimpanzee.
* 1979 , A. H. Harcourt, "Contrasts between Male Relationships in Wild Gorilla Groups," Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology , vol. 5, no. 1, p. 40:
* 2005 , B. J. Bradley et al.'', "Mountain Gorilla Tug-of-War," ''PNAS , vol. 102, no. 26, p. 9421:
(UK) the great black-backed gull.
As nouns the difference between chimpanzee and blackback
is that chimpanzee is a great ape of the genus pan , native to africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans while blackback is (zoology) an adolescent male gorilla or chimpanzee.chimpanzee
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(wikipedia chimpanzee)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* chimpHolonyms
* (individual chimpanzee) chimpkindblackback
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Noun
(en noun)- The author worked with two main study groups of gorilla in that region. Each contained a fully mature male (silverback), who was the obvious leader of the group, and a younger male of around 9 years of age (blackback ), who had not yet assumed full adult morphology.
- The second-ranking silverback is also a possible sire in the sixth case, although three other lower-ranking blackback males were also not excluded.