Young Mountain Gorillas
Tags: GORILLA; APES -- Infancy; PARENTAL behavior in animals; ANIMALS -- Infancy; MOUNTAIN animals; FAMILIAL behavior in animals
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- Test Tube Gorilla Has Yet To Form Motherly Bond. // Nutrition Health Review: The Consumer's Medical Journal;2004, Issue 91, p16
The article reports on Timu, a nine-year-old test-tube gorilla, who, according to the officials at the San Diego Zoo, has not bonded with her new daughter. The Western lowland gorilla attended to the newborn for a few hours, but then she lost interest. Timu was hand-raised in captivity, which...
- Lion Cubs. Orme, Helen // Lions in Danger;2007, p10
Information on lion cubs, from a chapter of the book "Lions in Danger," is presented. A lioness can give birth to as much as four cubs at a time. After the cubs are born, all female lions in the pride take care of them. Cubs drink their mother's milk until they are six-months old. They start...
- Reintroduced bighorn sheep: do females adjust maternal care to compensate for late-born young? Whiting, Jericho C.; Stewart, Kelley M.; Bowyer, R. Terry; Flinders, Jerran T. // European Journal of Wildlife Research;Jun2010, Vol. 56 Issue 3, p349
Little is known regarding the potential adjustment of maternal care towards late-born young by reintroduced female ungulates, which may be adapted to environments quite different than those at their release site. We compared nursing behaviors of young to investigate whether females would adjust...
- NEST-SITE FIDELITY IN EASTERN BLUEBIRDS (SIALIA SIALIS) DEPENDS ON THE QUALITY OF ALTERNATE CAVITIES. Stanback, Mark T.; Rockwell, Ellen K.; Thompson III, F. R. // Auk (American Ornithologists Union);Oct2003, Vol. 120 Issue 4, p1029
Secondary cavity nesting birds have been predicted to switch their nesting location when the quality of the nest site declines such as from accumulation of soiled nest material and parasites. We hypothesized that nest-site switching in Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis) should depend not only on...
- Chapter 4: Raising a Family. Staub, Frank // Prairie Dogs;1998, p24
Early in the spring, female black-tailed prairie dogs get ready to have babies. Each female builds a nest. The nest is where the baby prairie dogs will be born. Prairie dogs have three to five babies at one time. The babies are called pups. Newborn pups are helpless. But their mother takes good...
- BREEDING SITE AND MATE FIDELITY IN EASTERN PHOEBES (SAYORNIS PHOEBE) IN INDIANA. Beheler, Amanda S.; Rhodes Jr., Olin E.; Weeks Jr., Harmon P.; Moore, F. R. // Auk (American Ornithologists Union);Oct2003, Vol. 120 Issue 4, p990
Multibrooded species that undertake more than one nesting attempt per breeding season and individuals that breed over multiple years (breeding seasons) must decide whether to return to (or remain at) their former breeding site and social mate (fidelity) or to relocate (dispersal). During three...
- Central-place foraging in nursing, arthropod-gleaning bats. Daniel, Shai; Korine, Carmi; Pinshow, Berry // Canadian Journal of Zoology;Jul2008, Vol. 86 Issue 7, p623
Central-place (CP) foraging theory predicts a positive correlation between the time a breeding CP forager spends in a patch and the distance of the patch to the CP. We found that nursing female Hemprich�s long-eared bats (Otonycteris hemprichii Peters, 1859; Vespertilionidae) that forage...
- Sex-specific preweaning maternal care in reindeer (Rangifer tarandus t.). Weladji, Robert B.; Holand, �ystein; Steinheim, Geir; Lenvik, Dag // Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology;Apr2003, Vol. 53 Issue 5, p308
Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) have been used as an example of a polygynous species in which one could expect females to manipulate their investments in sons and daughters based on their physical condition. We investigated whether the effect of maternal condition, measured as female body mass, on...
- A wolf's life cycle. Kalman, Bobbie // Endangered Wolves;2005, p16
This section presents an overview of the life cycle of wolves. A gray wolf begins its life cycle in its mother's body. The pup is born in a litter, and each litter has about four to seven pups. The pup nurses for at least four weeks and after that it can start eating other foods as well. A wolf...
