The rules and the reality of mountain gorilla Gorilla beringei beringei tracking: how close do tourists get?
The rules and the reality of mountain gorilla Gorilla beringei beringei tracking: how close do tourists get?
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山地大猩猩的规则和现实 大猩猩 beringei beringei 跟踪：游客距离有多近？
DOI：
10.1017/s0030605306001323
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发表时间：
2006
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影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
S. Semple
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作者：
C. Sandbrook;S. Semple
山地大猩猩跟踪旅游业为保护工作带来了重要的收入，但也带来了疾病传播到大猩猩种群的威胁。这项研究首次量化了在Bwindi Impenetrable国家公园大猩猩与游客之间可能导致疾病传播风险的接触方面。这些因素包括游客与大猩猩的距离有多近，如何开始近距离接触，接触持续多长时间，以及所涉及的大猩猩的年龄等级。游客与大猩猩的距离比公园规定的要近得多（平均距离为2.76米，而规定为7米），而且距离很长时间。与最易感染疾病的大猩猩，即幼年大猩猩的接触，比与成年大猩猩的接触更近，但持续时间更短。大猩猩发起的接触比游客发起的接触更近，但时间更短。综上所述，这些结果表明，目前的规则正在失效，疾病传播的风险可能比以前认为的要大。
Mountain gorilla Gorilla beringei beringei tracking tourism generates important revenue for conservation efforts but brings with it the threat of disease transmission into the gorilla population. This study quantifies for the first time aspects of encounters between gorillas and tourists at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park that are likely to contribute to the risk of disease transmission. These include how close tourists get to gorillas, how close encounters are initiated, how long they last, and the age class of gorillas involved. Tourists got significantly closer to gorillas than the park rules allow (a mean of 2.76 m, compared to the rule of 7 m), and remained close for long periods. Contacts with the gorillas most vulnerable to disease, the juveniles, were closer but of shorter duration than those with adults. Contacts initiated by gorillas were closer but shorter than those initiated by tourists. Taken together these results demonstrate that the present rules are failing, and that the risk of disease transmission may be greater than previously believed.