Gorilla ecology and behavior
โ Scribed by Diane M. Doran; Alastair McNeilage
- Book ID
- 101295794
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 322 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1060-1538
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โฆ Synopsis
She has studied bonobos in Zaire, chimpanzees in the Ivory Coast, and mountain gorillas in Rwanda, and has recently established a long-term project at Mondika in the Central African Republic to study western lowland gorillas and sympatric chimpanzees. Her early work focused on factors that influence locomotion and posture in the African apes. Currently she is studying the influence of diet on social organization in western lowland gorillas. Alastair McNeilage did his doctorate on the ecology and carrying capacity of mountain
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Gorillas are the largest and among the most sexually dimorphic of all extant primates. While gorillas have been incorporated in broad-level comparisons among large-bodied hominoids or in studies of the African apes, comparisons between gorilla subspecies have been rare. During the past decade, howev