Gorillas

Gorillas are the real and fictional representations and derivations of the genus Gorilla. Gorillas are from Africa. They are primates and one of the four (sometimes considered three) great apes, the closest relatives of humans. In real life gorillas are highly intelligent and able to learn some degree of sign language. They can be very peaceful and lazy, but also highly aggressive (towards non-female gorillas) in the males. The are herbivores and despite their bulk and weight, they are avid climbers, but generally move around through the ground like other Old World apes, but are a little more well known for it and their knuckle walking. They are known for their size and in fiction are depicted as very large animals. Gorillas are very strong, and may be featured as creatures that attack with their arms in fiction such as Donkey Kong, Overwatch, and Animorphs. The most famous fictional representation of Gorillas in the English speaking world is King Kong, a ginormous gorilla known for escaping a secret island jungle and kidnapping a woman in his hand while climbing atop of large tower in a big city whilst trying to battle planes (and in other series, other giant monsters). Tarzan, a human, is also a very famous story where gorillas are featured; but oftentimes the gorillas are there as an interpretation, as the original book did not feature gorillas, but a fictional or cryptid sort of ape. Gorillas, like other apes, are associated with trees and leaves, bananas, jungles, and with the strange similar-yet-different emotional and physical aspects of humanity. Gorilla music tends to feature strong beats. A lot of rap artists use gorillas in their work, and, as most great apes and monkeys are used as slurs against black people...it seems that a lot of African American men found some need to portray themselves in music as large, male gorillas. Gorilla music tends to be 'LOOK I'M A GORILLA PERSON' and the album covers, names, and even songs are dedicated to gorillas if the artist's name is based off of a gorilla. Despite the gorilla's aggression, gorilla portrayals also often portray their touching kindness, especially with a finger, to indicate hands in the weirdly-human way. The main thing is that gorillas just don't want trouble, but when trouble comes to them, they may react quite violently with roars while bearing fangs (one of the few apes humans actually recognize as having fangs), drumming their chest (an act so loved that kids do it when playing gorillas and sometimes other primates), hitting things with the back of their hands, and throwing large and heavy objects at their foes. But when people don't attack them, they realize that they are in fact good, they're just scared and lonely.