Manguette, Marie L. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2388-3267
Robbins, Andrew M.
Breuer, Thomas
Stokes, Emma J.
Parnell, Richard J.
Robbins, Martha M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie (stipend)
Article History
Received: 24 January 2020
Revised: 27 May 2020
Accepted: 29 May 2020
First Online: 11 June 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: None.
: For this study, gorillas were observed in their natural habitat. Our observations were made from a 9-m-high platform and animals were mostly unaware of researchers’ presence; we therefore believe that our study had very little disturbance to the animals or the ecosystem. All study procedures complied with the Comité d’Ethique de la Recherche en Sciences de la Santé in Brazzaville, Republique of Congo, the ethical standards of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and the primatology department’s ethical guidelines for non-invasive research.