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As a noun blackback is

(zoology) an adolescent male gorilla or chimpanzee.

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blackback

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Noun

(en noun)
  • (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:
    • 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.
  • * 2005 , B. J. Bradley et al.'', "Mountain Gorilla Tug-of-War," ''PNAS , vol. 102, no. 26, p. 9421:
    • The second-ranking silverback is also a possible sire in the sixth case, although three other lower-ranking blackback males were also not excluded.
  • (UK) the great black-backed gull.

    • See also

    * silverback