Reproduction of East-African bats may guide risk mitigation for coronavirus spillover
One Health Outlook, 2020 Background Bats provide important ecosystem services; however, current evidence supports that they host several zoonotic viruses, including species of the Coronaviridae family.
Diego Montecino-Latorre +11 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic, affecting all countries, with millions of cases and deaths, and economic disruptions due to lockdowns, also threatens the health and conservation of endangered mountain gorillas.
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Variation in the timing of developmental milestones in Gorilla does not support the ecological risk aversion hypothesisVariation in the timing of developmental milestones in Gorilla does not support the ecological risk aversion hypothesis [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceSpecies comparisons of developmental milestones (behavioural and physical markers of neurodevelopment) allow empirical testing of hypotheses of how distinctive life-history characteristics may have evolved.
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Diversity of microsporidia, Cryptosporidium and Giardia in mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Infectious diseases represent the greatest threats to endangered species, and transmission from humans to wildlife under increased anthropogenic pressure has been always stated as a major risk of habituation.To evaluate the impact of close contact with ...
Bohumil Sak +8 more
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Extraversion predicts longer survival in gorillas: an 18-year longitudinal study [PDF]
, 2013 Personality plays an important role in determining human health and risk of earlier death. However, the mechanisms underlying those associations remain unknown.
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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 ...
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New Insights into the Evolution of the Human Diet from Faecal Biomarker Analysis in Wild Chimpanzee and Gorilla Faeces. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Our understanding of early human diets is based on reconstructed biomechanics of hominin jaws, bone and teeth isotopic data, tooth wear patterns, lithic, taphonomic and zooarchaeological data, which do not provide information about the relative amounts ...
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Making space for birds: Sourcing solutions from the mountain gorilla conservation model in Rwanda
Journal for Nature Conservation, 2020 Rwanda being one of the most densely populated countries in Africa, a large proportion of its native vegetation has been converted into agriculture and settlements, leading to the extensive loss and degradation of natural habitats, with significance for ...
Marie Laure Rurangwa, R. Whittaker
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Is Gorilla Flow legitimate to utilize?
, 2022 Gorilla Flow the review, as men age, testosterone amalgamation diminishes while female chemicals, for example, estrogen levels increment. This leads the body to attack the chemical because of the expansion in estrogen The estrogen chemical may likewise ...
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Mountain Gorillas and Bonobos [PDF]
Oryx, 1976 The author spent six weeks in Zaire early in 1975 to get first-hand experience both of mountain gorillas, in the Kahuzi Biega and Virunga national parks, and of bonobos (pygmy chimpanzees) in forests south of the Zaire river. As a result he believes that, Tor the mountain gorillas, the enlargement, already planned, of the Kahuzi Biega park is important
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