Body mass in lowland gorillas: A quantitative analysis

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 61-78

  Luiselli, Donata ^a   Simoni, Lucia ^a   Tarazona Santos, Eduardo ^a,b   Pastor, Santiago ^c   Pettener, Davide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

Author keywords

Body mass; Limb segments; Lowland gorillas; Quantitative anatomy; Tissue composition

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GORILLA; MALE; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; DOGS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMANS; MALE; PONGO PYGMAEUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033847333     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1096-8644(200009)113:1<61::AID-AJPA6>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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