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<p>New 20-year study shows that female mountain gorillas use their social connections when choosing new groups — seeking familiar faces while avoiding childhood males. Picture: Cedric Ujeneza &amp; Jean de Dieu Tuyizere / Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund</p>

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Female gorillas choosy about which group to settle in — potentially an inbreeding avoidance strategy
Scientists have found that female gorillas shunned troops in which males from their own neck-of-the-woods were present, but opted to join ones in which no males were their close relatives
<p> Segasira (shown as a youngster on left) lost his mother and father before the age of 4 but has recently established himself as the leader of a group at the young age of 17. Picture: gorillafund.org / Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund</p>

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Richard Collins: Study on childhood trauma in gorillas and chimpanzees
Winston, a silverback gorilla, in his enclosure at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, California (Ken Bohn/San Diego Zoo Global via AP)

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Gorillas test positive for coronavirus at San Diego park
Gorilla relationships limited in large groups, study suggests

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Gorilla relationships limited in large groups, study suggests
You have to hand it to great apes
Google sorry as app tags black couple &lsquo;gorillas&rsquo;
Google sorry as app tags black couple ‘gorillas’

Google says it is &ldquo;appalled&rdquo; and has apologised to a black couple after the firm&rsquo;s new Photos app mistakenly labelled them as &ldquo;gorillas&rdquo;.

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