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African ape carpal morphology is not too specialized to represent the ancestral hominin carpus. [PDF]

J Anat
Knuckle walking is one hypothesized behavior of the Pan‐Homo last common ancestor. We analyzed carpal morphology, including Euclidean distances between behavioral pairs, to investigate whether the carpals of knuckle‐walking taxa appear relatively specialized.
Hunter LE, Tocheri MW, Orr CM, Patel BA, Alemseged Z.   +4 more
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Projecting the impact of an ebola virus outbreak on endangered mountain gorillas

Scientific Reports, 2023
Ebola virus is highly lethal for great apes. Estimated mortality rates up to 98% have reduced the global gorilla population by approximately one-third.
Dawn M. Zimmerman, Emily Hardgrove, Sara Sullivan, Stephanie Mitchell, Eddy Kambale, Julius Nziza, Benard Ssebide, Chantal Shalukoma, Mike Cranfield, Pranav S. Pandit, Sean P. Troth, Taylor Callicrate, Philip Miller, Kirsten Gilardi, Robert C. Lacy   +14 more
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Integrating mandibular evidence to assess morphological variation of the Australopithecus afarensis maxilla. [PDF]

Anat Rec (Hoboken)
Abstract Geometric morphometric analyses are used to explore variation of maxillary dental arcades of Australopithecus afarensis, expanding on the work of Hanegraef and Spoor, 2025 (Morphological variation of the Australopithecus afarensis maxilla.
Hanegraef H, David R, Spoor F.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Livelihood Security and Perceived Prevalence of Illegal Activities Threatening Mountain Gorilla Conservation in East Africa’s Virunga Landscape

Land, 2022
Illegal activities pose challenges to the conservation of mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) across the Virunga Landscape (VL). This paper investigates the relationship between household livelihood security (HLS) and the perceived prevalence ...
Edwin Sabuhoro, Brett A. Wright, Ian E. Munanura, Peter Mkumbo, Katie P. Bernhard, John T. Mgonja   +5 more
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Generation Length: Often Ignored and Sometimes Misunderstood. [PDF]

Evol Appl
ABSTRACT Traditional mathematical models of population genetics have generally assumed discrete generations, but most species have overlapping generations. It is necessary to estimate generation length with overlapping generations for purposes of comparison with discrete‐generation models.
Allendorf FW, Ryman N.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Meat Acquisition Skill and Male Reproductive Success in Guinea Baboons. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
ABSTRACT Objectives In human foraging societies, hunting skill is often interpreted as a signal of male quality linked to reproductive success through his ability to provision his family and community. Similarly, in some bird and insect species, males offer mates food to indicate their quality as a provider.
O'Hearn WJ, Pesco FD, Mundry R, Fischer J.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Social groups buffer maternal loss in mountain gorillas

eLife, 2021
Mothers are crucial for mammals’ survival before nutritional independence, but many social mammals reside with their mothers long after. In these species the social adversity caused by maternal loss later in life can dramatically reduce fitness. However,
Robin E Morrison, Winnie Eckardt, Fernando Colchero, Veronica Vecellio, Tara S Stoinski   +4 more
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Rapid transmission of respiratory infections within but not between mountain gorilla groups

Scientific Reports, 2021
Minimizing disease transmission between humans and wild apes and controlling outbreaks in ape populations is vital to both ape conservation and human health, but information on the transmission of real infections in wild populations is rare.
Robin E. Morrison, Yvonne Mushimiyimana, Tara S. Stoinski, Winnie Eckardt   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Higher Maximum Temperature Increases the Frequency of Water Drinking in Mountain Gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei)

Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2022
Water plays a vital role in many aspects of sustaining life, including thermoregulation. Given that increasing temperatures and more extreme weather events due to climate change are predicted to influence water availability, understanding how species ...
Edward Wright, Edward Wright, Winnie Eckardt, Johannes Refisch, Robert Bitariho, Cyril C. Grueter, Jessica Ganas-Swaray, Tara S. Stoinski, Martha M. Robbins   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Human Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 in Confiscated Gorilla

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014
In 2007, we detected human herpes simplex virus type 1, which caused stomatitis, in a juvenile confiscated eastern lowland gorilla (Gorilla beringei graueri) that had a high degree of direct contact with human caretakers.
Kirsten V.K. Gilardi, Kristie L. Oxford, David Gardner-Roberts, Jean-Felix Kinani, Lucy Spelman, Peter A. Barry, Michael R. Cranfield, Linda J. Lowenstine   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source