The importance of message framing in rule compliance by visitors during wildlife tourism
Conservation Science and Practice, 2021 A conundrum of wildlife tourism is balancing wildlife conservation and tourist satisfaction. Mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei) are a flagship species for biodiversity and there is worldwide interest in gorilla trekking safaris.
Simplicious J. Gessa, Jessica M. Rothman
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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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Gait characteristics of vertical climbing in mountain gorillas and chimpanzees [PDF]
, 2018 Biomechanical analyses of arboreal locomotion in great apes in their natural environment are scarce and thus attempts to correlate behavioural and habitat differences with variations in morphology are limited. The aim of this study was to investigate the
Robbins, Martha M. +14 more
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Lethal combats in the forest among wild western gorillas
iScienceSummary: Lethal intergroup encounters occur in many species because of sexual selection. While documented in mountain gorillas, they are absent in western gorillas as, instead, it is predicted by their higher feeding (frugivory) and mate competition ...
Hugo Potel +8 more
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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.
Patrick J. Tkaczynski +2 more
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Behavioral responses around conspecific corpses in adult eastern gorillas (Gorilla beringei spp.) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Humans were once considered unique in having a concept of death but a growing number of observations of animal responses to dying and dead conspecifics suggests otherwise.
Amy Porter +8 more
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The Pan African Medical Journal, 2019 INTRODUCTION: Cryptosporidium and Giardia are of great one health significance and major cause of protozoan diarrhea in humans and primates; they are found in the fecal matter of animals and humans and also in contaminated water and soil as well ...
Gizamba Jacob Mugoya +5 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 +3 more
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Mountain gorillas: a shifting demographic landscape
, 2014 Large-scale habitat destruction and poaching in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s had major impacts on the population size and demography of mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) in Rwanda.
Williamson, Elizabeth A
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The “costly son” hypothesis: Sons exacerbate obstetrical dilemmas in humans and other mammals
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Human childbirth has often been considered uniquely difficult among mammals, yet recent evidence suggests that obstructed labor and fetopelvic disproportion are widespread across placental mammals. Here, we propose the “costly son” hypothesis: because male offspring are typically larger at birth, they impose greater obstetric risk on mothers ...
Nicole D. S. Grunstra +1 more
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