Long-Term Proximity Relationships in a Captive Social Group of Western Lowland Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)

To visualize long-term social relationships among 12 gorillas in a captive breeding group at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, San Diego, CA, the multidimensional scaling (MDS) procedure was applied to proximity (within 5 m) values collected in five different periods over 2.5 years. The resulting two-dimensional representations clearly show that in samples taken during […]