The extent of western lowland gorilla social relationships within and between groups

• Kristena Cooksey ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kristena.cooksey@eku.edu

  ¶‡ KC and JF contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Language & Cultural Studies, Anthropology and Sociology, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8425-1821

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• Jake Funkhouser ,

  Roles Data curation

  ¶‡ KC and JF contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Crickette Sanz,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Wildlife Conservation Society, Congo Program, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo

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• Jean Marie Massamba,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Society, Congo Program, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo

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• Thierry Fabrice Ebombi,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Society, Congo Program, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo

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• Prospère Teberd,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Society, Congo Program, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo

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• Gaston Abea,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Society, Congo Program, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo

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• Gaeton Mbebouti,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Society, Congo Program, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo

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• Kathryn Judson,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Sean Brogan,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision

  Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Society, Congo Program, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo

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• Colleen Stephens,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• David Morgan

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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