Random thought.

[daibhidc]

There's a member of the weasel family called the zorilla. The name is Spanish for "little fox"; fox in Spanish being, of course, "zorro".

So was King Kong a gorro?

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[john_amend_all]

Sadly, Wiktionary and the OED agree that 'gorilla' is derived from Greek rather than Spanish, and isn't a diminutive.