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| | The term '''"gorilla"''' was an epithet or insult, indicating a person — usually male — who was ugly or brutish. [[Rose Tyler]] described [[Darren Pye]] as looking like a shaved [[gorilla]], "only not as handsome." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Winner Takes All (novel)|Winner Takes All]]'') |
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| |type = [[Primate]]
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| |origin = [[Earth]]
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| |first = The God Complex
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| {{looks like|Sabre-toothed gorilla}}
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| '''Gorillas'''<ref>This article generally concerns itself with gorillas whose exact breed was not known. You may be looking for information [[#Breeds|about more specific sub-species]]</ref> were a type of [[ape]] native to [[Earth]]. | |
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| == Earth gorillas ==
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| [[The Doctor]], his [[companion]]s and associates occasionally ran across gorillas in their travels. For instance, the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Leela]] once visited the [[London Zoo]] at a time when its animals were running free. They saw a gorilla grooming one of the zoo keepers. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Stanley (short story)|Stanley]]'') | |
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| In [[1911]], [[Nathaniel Whitlock]] had a gorilla on his property in [[Suffolk]]. He paid £150 for it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Moonflesh (audio story)|Moonflesh]]'')
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| In [[1936]], [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]] described the [[Slavering]]s as a "cross between a silver-backed gorilla and [[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde|Mr Hyde]]." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shadow at the Edge of the World (audio story)|The Shadow at the Edge of the World]]'')
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| The [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Rory Williams]] visited [[New York City]] in the [[1930s]] and found it was being menaced by a giant gorilla. However, the Doctor said that it wasn't a giant gorilla, but the city itself had been shrunk. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Doctor and the Nurse (comic story)|The Doctor and the Nurse]]'')
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| === Breeds ===
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| Amongst the specific breeds of gorilla known were [[mountain gorilla]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Last Dodo (novel)|The Last Dodo]]'')
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| == Cultural references to gorillas ==
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| Gorillas were often the subject of [[fiction]]. One of the more popular [[film]]s of the [[20th century]] was ''[[King Kong]]'', which depicted the adventures of a giant gorilla. This movie spawned imitations, such as ''[[Mighty Joe Young]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'')
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| In an [[Alternate timeline (The Death of Captain Jack)|alternate]] [[1887]], [[John Hart (Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)|John Hart]] saved [[Queen]] [[Victoria]] from an [[alien]] that was passed off in the press as an escaped gorilla. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Death of Captain Jack (audio story)|The Death of Captain Jack]]'')
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| There was also some literary use of gorillas. [[Lucy Hayward]] developed a life-long fear of gorillas from a [[book]] which she had read as a child. It was this fear which eventually killed her in a room on the [[Minotaur (The God Complex)|Minotaur's]] [[Prison ship (The God Complex)|"hotel"]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The God Complex (TV story)|The God Complex]]'')
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| It was also common for people to dress up as gorillas. [[Harry Sullivan]], for instance, used a gorilla [[costume]] from [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] to help fool a tribal [[shaman]] in [[Nyasaland]] into believing that the tribal chief had captured a mythical "[[Nandi Bear]]" inside the ship. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[To Kill a Nandi Bear]]'')
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| == Behind the scenes ==
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| The gorilla from ''[[The God Complex (TV story)|The God Complex]]'' that frightened Lucy Hayward in the hotel room was a role played by actor [[Roger Ennals]].
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| == Footnotes ==
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| [[Category:Creatures from the real world]]
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| [[Category:Apes]]
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