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Functionality in Tool Use in Western Lowland Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2015 Nonhuman primates are known to use objects as tools. Amongst the great apes, gorillas seem to be the least proficient tool users. Previous research has shown that the western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) at the Buffalo Zoo use buckets ...
Matthew K. LeFauve, Susan W. Margulis
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Iliac Attachment of the Psoas Major Muscle: Anatomical Study of a Novel Muscle Attachment
Clinical Anatomy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The iliopsoas muscle is important functionally and is often encountered during various surgical procedures. During routine cadaveric dissection, a previously undescribed muscular structure was located deep to the iliacus muscle and coursed inferomedially to merge with the posterior aspect of the psoas major, running over the iliopectineal ...
Dominic A. Roy +7 more
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Mountain gorilla lymphocryptovirus has Epstein-Barr virus-like epidemiology and pathology in infants
Scientific Reports, 2017 Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infects greater than 90% of humans, is recognized as a significant comorbidity with HIV/AIDS, and is an etiologic agent for some human cancers. The critically endangered mountain gorilla population was suspected of infection with
Tierra Smiley Evans +12 more
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Individual distinctiveness in call types of wild western female gorillas. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Individually distinct vocalizations play an important role in animal communication, allowing call recipients to respond differentially based on caller identity.
Roberta Salmi +2 more
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International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Individuals with high levels of orthorexic eating behavior (OEB) show a (pathological) fixation on healthy eating. Shared characteristics of OEB with individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) raised debate over whether orthorexia nervosa constitutes a distinct disorder. Distinctions may lie in preference for and approach behavior toward
Hannah van Alebeek +7 more
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Mountain gorilla tug-of-war: Silverbacks have limited control over reproduction in multimale groups
, 2005 To determine who fathers the offspring in wild mountain gorilla groups containing more than one adult male silverback, we genotyped nearly one-fourth (n = 92) of the mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) living in the Virunga Volcanoes region of ...
Robbins, Martha M. +19 more
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Distributed Individual-Based Environmental Simulation [PDF]
, 1997 This paper describes the development and construction of a distributed model allowing the simulation of a large population. Particular attention will be paid to allowing the modelling of an individual's behaviour, communication and interaction with a ...
Mark Scahill, Scahill, Mark
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European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The poor mental and physical health of trans‐ and gender‐diverse (TGD) young people is well established and commonly attributed to gender minority stress. Although recent research has shown that social support can mitigate these effects, less attention has been paid to the psychological processes through which this occurs.
Chase Staras +3 more
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human-RNAseq_mapto_Gorilla-gorilla
, 2015 Human RNA-seq reads aligned to the G.
Araxi O. Urrutia (195632) +17 more
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Mirror self-recognition in a gorilla (gorilla gorilla gorilla)
, 2017 Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) pass the mirror self-recognition test (MSR) with limited mirror training or exposure, but the evidence suggesting that gorillas do so is unclear. This project examined a male gorilla (G. gorilla gorilla) named Otto in a modified mark test.
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