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Robbins has studied mountain gorillas in Bwindi since 1998, taking the time to habituate and let the mountain gorillas get to know her.
She also knows which individuals should be given more space. “It’s kind of like people — you know who you can joke with and you know who you can’t,” Robbins says. “Even though I’ve been doing it my whole adult life practically, it’s a real privilege that the gorillas let me into their lives.”As part of her studies, Robbins has recorded how often the gorillas drink water. She says the gorillas derive 90 percent of the water they need from their vegetarian diet.
For this study, data was collected by Robbins’ team on five groups of gorillas in Bwindi between 2010 and 2019. They also examined data collected by the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund’s Karisoke Research Center in Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda from January 2012 to December 2020.They found that while gorillas don’t usually drink much, they do sip water from puddles, swamps and occasionally streams in warmer temperatures.
Gorillas are well-insulated to deal with the cold nighttime temperatures at the mountain elevations that sometimes reach near freezing. When it gets super hot, the primates retreat deep into bushes away from the sun where it’s a little cooler — what Robbins calls “enforced resting.”
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