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Personality dimensions and their behavioral correlates in wild virunga mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) [PDF]

, 2014
This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record.Studies of animal personality improve our understanding of individual variation in measures of life-history and fitness, such as health ...
Steklis, Dieter H., Eckardt, Winnie, Weiss, Alexander, Steklis, H. Dieter, Steklis, Netzin G., Fletcher, Alison W., Stoinski, Tara S.   +6 more
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The impact of mountain gorilla tourism: A residents’ perspective [PDF]

African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2020
The critically endangered mountain gorilla, Gorilla beringei beringei, found in only three countries, Uganda, Democratic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda is inextricably linked to tourism.
Gift Muresherwa, Imelda Amony , Chux Gervase Iwu , Cynthia Nokubonga Dube   +3 more
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Keep your distance: Using Instagram posts to evaluate the risk of anthroponotic disease transmission in gorilla ecotourism

People and Nature, 2021
Mountain gorilla Gorilla beringei beringei trekking is a substantial source of revenue for the conservation of this threatened primate and its habitat.
Gaspard Van Hamme, Magdalena S. Svensson, Thais Q. Morcatty, K. Anne‐Isola Nekaris, Vincent Nijman   +4 more
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Space partitioning in wild, non-territorial mountain gorillas: the impact of food and neighbours [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2017
In territorial species, the distribution of neighbours and food abundance play a crucial role in space use patterns but less is known about how and when neighbours use shared areas in non-territorial species.
Nicole Seiler, Christophe Boesch, Roger Mundry, Colleen Stephens, Martha M. Robbins   +4 more
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Lack of Rule-Adherence During Mountain Gorilla Tourism Encounters in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda, Places Gorillas at Risk From Human Disease

Frontiers in Public Health, 2020
Mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) are an endangered primate species, with ~43% of the 1,063 individuals that remain on the planet today residing in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP) in southwestern Uganda.
Annalisa Weber, Annalisa Weber, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Nancy J. Stevens, Nancy J. Stevens   +4 more
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An updated checklist of Culicoides Latreille, 1809 biting midges from the highlands of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. [PDF]

Med Vet Entomol
The highlands of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are home to critically endangered eastern gorillas (Gorilla beringei). Climate change could increase the abundance and distribution of Culicoides‐borne diseases. We utilized morphological and molecular techniques to identify Culicoides spp.
Kubala A, Warren K, Meiswinkel R, Cranfield M, Robertson I, Yeap L, Vaughan-Higgins R, Nishuli R, Syaluha EK, Lukusa JK, Balyananzi MK, Linton YM.   +11 more
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Prevention of Cryptosporidium and GIARDIA at the Human/Gorilla/Livestock Interface

Frontiers in Public Health, 2018
Mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) are critically endangered and found in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and Virunga Volcanoes. Habitat destruction, high human population growth rates, poverty, and disease are threatening the survival of mountain ...
Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Stephen Rubanga, Birungi Mutahunga, Ryan Sadler   +3 more
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Fig. 2 in Gorilla beringei (Primates: Hominidae)

, 2018
Fig. 2.—Juvenile male Gorilla beringei beringei, Volcanoes National Park, Virunga Mountains, Rwanda. Photograph used with permission of Alexandra Kralick.Published as part of Canington, Stephanie L, 2018, Gorilla beringei (Primates: Hominidae), pp.
Canington, Stephanie L
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An Analysis of Gorillas as Zoogeomorphic Agents

Revista de Geomorfologie, 2022
Gorillas are among the most charismatic and well-researched species on the planet, yet their role as zoogeomorphic agents has gone largely overlooked. Knowledge on how gorillas contribute to landscape formation and decay is vital for future conservation
Andrea Pinon, David R Butler
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Human Metapneumovirus Infection in Wild Mountain Gorillas, Rwanda

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011
The genetic relatedness of mountain gorillas and humans has led to concerns about interspecies transmission of infectious agents. Human-to-gorilla transmission may explain human metapneumovirus in 2 wild mountain gorillas that died during a respiratory ...
Gustavo Palacios, Linda J. Lowenstine, Michael R. Cranfield, Kirsten V.K. Gilardi, Lucy Spelman, Magda Lukasik-Braum, Jean-Felix Kinani, Antoine Mudakikwa, Elisabeth Nyirakaragire, Ana Valeria Bussetti, Nazir Savji, Stephen Hutchison, Michael Egholm, W. Ian Lipkin   +13 more
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