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High Altitude Diets: Implications for the Feeding and Nutritional Ecology of Mountain Gorillas

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Though the majority of primates live in tropical habitats, several species partially or exclusively range in high altitude regions of Africa, Asia, and Madagascar (Blanco and Rahalinarivo 2010; Iwamoto and Dunbar 1983; Kirkpatrick and Grueter 2010; Mendiratta et al. 2009; Watts 1998; Whiten et al. 1987).

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We thank the assistants at the ITFC for their hard work in the field. Hunter College, Jane Engel, and the Robert G. Engel Family Foundation, the Department of Animal Science at Cornell University, Mario Einaudi Foundation, Cornell University Graduate School, NSF BCS 0922709 to JMR, and Cornell’s Institute of African Development provided funding for this research. The Uganda Wildlife Authority and the Uganda Council for Science and Technology gave us permission to conduct this research; all research conducted during this study complies with the current regulations of the Government of Uganda. We thank the editors for inviting us to contribute to this volume. We appreciate discussions about this research from Alice Pell and Ellen Dierenfeld, and we are grateful for comments from Colin Chapman.

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    Jessica M. Rothman & Bianca F. Shannon

  2. Department of Anthropology, New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY, U.S.A

    Jessica M. Rothman & Margaret A. H. Bryer

  3. Department of Biology, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

    John Bosco Nkurunungi

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Rothman, J.M., Nkurunungi, J.B., Shannon, B.F., Bryer, M.A.H. (2014). High Altitude Diets: Implications for the Feeding and Nutritional Ecology of Mountain Gorillas. In: Grow, N., Gursky-Doyen, S., Krzton, A. (eds) High Altitude Primates. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8175-1_14

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