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Gorilla Size Study (2 of 2)

Caption: From 1995 until 2007, the team followed the lives of 19 adult male western lowland gorillas and their family groups from observation platforms with telescopes and cameras, tracking the number of females each male mated with, and the number of offspring produced by each adult male and their survival.

Credit: Thomas Breuer/WCS

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