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They were the two males Gorillas of San Diego zoo, a new arrival and an old settler, standing upright on their hind legs, pounding their chests rapidly with their hands, screeching and hooting loudly using their belch vocalization, and then they started to lose orthostatic form, dropping their arms slowly to the ground, going back to their quadrupedal position, lifting their heads up with the sense of fire in their eyes, looking sharply at each other; they were about to enter a fight. They were brawny, burly, and thickset, with rounded shoulder, muscular arms, barrel chests and bloated stomach like a Sumo-Builders, moving cautiously in a circular angle, intensively paying attention to the movements of the other one, stopping for a moment, then suddenly they ran into each other like head-on meteorites, creating a massive collision, adding the big thunderstorm to the space, and breaking all the silence of the place.

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