9 quotes about gorillas follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!

We feel as though we stole the big gorilla's lunch.

Grant Newton

Once I was a forty pound weakling. Now I am two separate gorillas.

Vivian Stanshall

We believe we can compete with them. We need a game similar to our effort at Commerce (a 53-52 loss for the Gorillas) on Feb. 24.

Jerry Myers

The slaughter of chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives, is absolutely diabolical. I can't imagine that this can go on much longer before these animals are extinct.

Richard Leakey

In Maiko, where we thought there were only 33 gorillas. We are now looking at a population of about 600 or more.

Patrick Mehlman

Chimps are portrayed as the super-ape and gorillas are the big brutes in the forest.

Richard Carroll

This is a surprising finding, given what we know about tool use in gorillas.

Patrick Mehlman

It's an amazing experience to be able to sit with them (the gorillas). It's a beautiful forest and the people that ran it were exceptionally friendly and knowledgeable.

Mark Ross

Very often the use of tools is triggered by certain needs and it seems that gorillas have only little needs to use tools in the wild.

Thomas Breuer