Doran-Sheehy Diane M, Boesch Christophe
Department of Anthropology, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, USA.
Am J Primatol. 2004 Oct;64(2):139-43. doi: 10.1002/ajp.20068.
The papers in this issue are from a conference held in May 2002 at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. This conference brought together researchers from all current western gorilla sites for the first time with the aim of synthesizing the most current information available on western gorilla behavioral ecology. Our goal was to assess the degree of behavioral diversity in gorillas in light of our current understanding of social evolution. The articles include 1) synopses of the current information on western gorilla foraging strategy, social behavior, life history, and genetic variation; 2) more-detailed descriptions of home-range use and intergroup encounters across sites; and 3) the first description of the social behavior of western gorilla females.
本期的论文来自2002年5月在德国莱比锡的马克斯·普朗克进化人类学研究所召开的一次会议。本次会议首次将来自所有现存西部大猩猩栖息地的研究人员聚集在一起，目的是综合有关西部大猩猩行为生态学的最新信息。我们的目标是根据我们目前对社会进化的理解，评估大猩猩行为多样性的程度。这些文章包括：1）关于西部大猩猩觅食策略、社会行为、生活史和基因变异的当前信息概要；2）对各栖息地的活动范围使用情况和群体间相遇情况的更详细描述；3）对西部大猩猩雌性社会行为的首次描述。
