human with mouthguard
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luca-chimp
The man on the clip is wearing a mouthguard and is collecting something. Do you know is it to protect the chimps for our diseases or the other way round or both?
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AnLand
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Hi @luca-chimp,
the person in the video is a researcher wearing a mask mainly to protect the animals (in this case rather habituated gorillas) from human diseases, foremost respiratory diseases. Not really to protect himself. Most research projects working with habituated apes in the wild also implement further rules to protect the animals from potentially devastating human diseases like always stay at least 7 meters away from the animals and having some days of quarantine when arriving newly at the research camp.
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luca-chimp
ah, right. Forgot, that (RestlessStar) is too a trail to watch gorillas. Thanks again!
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