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Tourist expectations and satisfaction in mountain gorilla tourism in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda

Journal of Ecotourism, 2023
Sustainable tourism plays a pivotal role in the conservation of endangered mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei); however, few studies have investigated tourist expectations and satisfaction from a tourism management perspective.
Ryoma Otsuka   +2 more
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Mountain gorilla tug-of-war: Silverbacks have limited control over reproduction in multimale groups

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 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 ...
Christophe Boesch, Martha M. Robbins
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Population structure, intergroup interaction, and human contact govern infectious disease impacts in mountain gorilla populations

American Journal of Primatology, 2021
Infectious zoonotic diseases are a threat to wildlife conservation and global health. They are especially a concern for wild apes, which are vulnerable to many human infectious diseases. As ecotourism, deforestation, and great ape field research increase,
C. Whittier   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Metastatic perioral melanoma in a wild mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei)

Journal of medical primatology, 2021
A 30‐year‐old free‐ranging female mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) developed a perioral mass that was surgically debulked and diagnosed as malignant melanoma. After tumor recurrence, a canine melanoma vaccine was administered.
Eddy Kambale Syaluha   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Gigantopithecus and the Mountain Gorilla

Nature, 1970
PILBEAM1 has recently described the peculiarities of the extinct pongid genus Gigantopithecus, and commented on the striking parallelisms between its functional morphology and that of both Theropithecus (following Jolly2) and the early Hominidae. I hope to show here that a similar functional complex has evolved in a living pongid, the rare mountain ...
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Vocalizations of the mountain Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla beringei)

Animal Behaviour, 1972
Abstract On the basis of 2255 hr contact with free-living gorilla, and considerable observation of two captive infants, sixteen types of vocalization are described. Some of these could be grouped to give twelve basic categories. For each of the sixteen types data are presented on the frequency with which it is given by each age/sex class, the ...
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