Notes on the introduction of an 11 week-old infant western lowland gorilla gorilla gorilla gorilla to a non-lactating surrogate mother sat zoo atlanta

International Zoo Yearbook

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 191-198

  Hoff, M P ^a,b   Tarou, L R ^d   Horton, C ^b   Mayo, L ^b   Maple, T L ^b,c  

^a DALTON STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ZOO ATLANTA   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gorilla; Introduction; Maternal behaviour; Surrogate mother; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547550980     PISSN: 00749664     EISSN: 17481090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1090.2005.tb00019.x     Document Type: Article

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