Veterinarians received an out-of-the-ordinary patient, a huge 29-stone silverback gorilla suffering from severe tooth pain. The South African zoo's chief breeding primate, Binga, exhibited signs ...

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This discovery brought to light an extinct kind of great anthropoid, which differed from the three living genera—the gorilla, chimpanzee, and orang—in having a long or dolichocephalic skull.

Vets had a very unusual patient pop in for treatment on an agonising toothache – a giant 29-stone silverback gorilla. A zoo in South Africa asked for help when its prime breeding primate ...