Big-box retailers, particularly Lowe's (nyse: LOW - news - people), radio broadcasting, semiconductors and data-storage gorillas like EMC (nyse: EMC - news - people).

FORBES: Looking Forward, Looking Back

But allowing gorillas and chimpanzees to die, or killing them off, won't improve people's lives: it will impoverish them.

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Unlike the widespread HIV-1 M strain, and the much rarer N and O strains, which jumped to people from chimpanzees, the newly described P strain originated in gorillas.

ECONOMIST: Human malaria started in chimpanzees