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Observations of severe and lethal coalitionary attacks in wild mountain gorillas

In humans and chimpanzees, most intraspecific killing occurs during coalitionary intergroup conflict. In the closely related genus Gorilla, such behavior has not been described. We report three cases of multi-male, multi-female wild mountain gorilla (G. beringei) groups attacking extra-group males....

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Autores principales: Rosenbaum, Stacy, Vecellio, Veronica, Stoinski, Tara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5111119/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27849056
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep37018

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