Pourtant, certains de ses plus rares et surprenants comportements (comme ses attitudes de “deuil”, https://t.co/bCfDlKisp2), documentés seulement dans les années 2000, sont connus depuis très longtemps et avaient déjà été rapportés dès le 16e siècle, dans les écrits de voyageurs.
Gorillas encounter bodies of the dead: "[We] suggest that the behavioral responses were influenced in part by close social relationships between the deceased and certain group members and by a general curiosity about death" https://t.co/DHuzfoRvfh
Our article 'Behavioral responses around conspecific corpses in adult eastern gorillas (Gorilla beringei spp.)' ended up in the top 5 most viewed #AnimalBehavior #Anthropology and #Zoology articles published in @thePeerJ journal in 2019!
@Scrivmaster @MatthewMGervais @stacylrosenbaum @LydiaMHopper @nyuprimatology @Anthrofuentes @AlexGRosati Explorative behavior towards dead conspecifics is quite frequent among animals. Here’s a recent study on gorillas:
https://t.co/D7hl6GgkHR