FPS Mountain Gorilla Project: Progress Report 2

Fracture toughness of mountain gorilla (Gorilla gorilla beringei) food plants.

Mountain gorillas, the largest extant primates, subsist almost entirely on plant matter. Moreover, their diet includes a substantial amount of structural material, such as bark and stems, which other primates tend to avoid. Accordingly, the robust masticatory apparatus of gorillas may be adaptive to this presumably tough diet; however, quantitative information on this subject is lacking. In thi...

Virunga Massif Mountain Gorilla Census – 2010 Summary Report

Project Progress Report

I have finished implementation of some traditional texture synthesis algorithms: pixel-based [EL99] and patch-based [EF01]. The first one, as well known is quite slow. I tested some perspective texture samples with these algorithms, as shown in Fig 1 and Fig 2. It is obvious that the textures of different scales are mixed together. This is just a shortcoming of traditional algorithms. I have ne...

Thesis Project Progress Report

The purpose of this progress report is to describe the aims of the thesis project and to outline the project plan. The report will discuss the originality of the project through a review of current research. The literature review will present current technologies in the research area and the relevance to the thesis project will be assessed. Current commercial products will also be discussed. Fi...

Environmental Influences on Mountain Gorilla Time Budgets

Data on the time budgets of mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei) were collected during field studies in the Virunga Volcanoes region of Rwanda and Zaire. Focal sampling was used to determine the proportion of time that individuals of different agehex classes spent in several mutually exclusive activity states. The gorillas spent the majority of daylight hours feeding; most of the rest o...