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From groups to communities in western lowland gorillas.
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- Group structure and individual relationships of sanctuary-living Grauer's gorillas (Gorilla beringei graueri).PloS one · 2024Article
- Drone Observation for the Quantitative Study of Complex Multilevel Societies.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Review
- Playing together, laughing together: rapid facial mimicry and social sensitivity in lowland gorillas.Current zoology · 2022Article
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- Adult-adult play in captive lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla).Primates; journal of primatology · 2022Article
- Aerial drone observations identified a multilevel society in feral horses.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Automated genotyping of microsatellite loci from feces with high throughput sequences.PloS one · 2021Article
- Comparisons of between-group differentiation in male kinship between bonobos and chimpanzees.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Hierarchical social modularity in gorillas.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- From groups to communities in western lowland gorillas.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
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Abstract
Social networks are the result of interactions between individuals at different temporal scales. Thus, sporadic intergroup encounters and individual forays play a central role in defining the dynamics of populations in social species. We assessed the rate of intergroup encounters for three western lowland gorilla ( Gorilla gorilla gorilla) groups with daily observations over 5 years, and non-invasively genotyped a larger population over four months. Both approaches revealed a social system much more dynamic than anticipated, with non-aggressive intergroup encounters that involved social play by immature individuals, exchanges of members between groups likely modulated by kinship, and absence of infanticide evidenced by infants not fathered by the silverback of the group where they were found. This resulted in a community composed of groups that interacted frequently and not-aggressively, contrasting with the more fragmented and aggressive mountain gorilla ( G. beringei beringei) societies. Such extended sociality can promote the sharing of behavioural and cultural traits, but might also increase the susceptibility of western lowland gorillas to infectious diseases that have decimated their populations in recent times.
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