I'd like to start the review of LS with the females with infants. There are at least 3 females carrying infants. Most of these videos have already been mentioned in the thread Moms with infants but I wanted to group them together for better comparison.
Luana & Elie (tag group): Luana seems to be the only female with a grey back. She has a greyish head, bright muzzle, straight brows, bid nostrils, big, triangular balding Her infant Elie with bright muzzle is still quite small but rides dorsally, high up on the back. It's still small enough though to be carried ventrally in certain situations, it seems:
Videos with supposed Luana & Elie are:
grey back, bright face, small dorsal infant with bright muzzle: ACP0005jrb
carried ventrally, but same drop-shaped swelling as Luana: ACP0005wz6 (compare to ACP0005hcw)
The following videos show a dark female with a ventral infant (no TempID). Her head appears quite big, she's got a white beard, bent brows, big nosrils and a triangular balding.
There are only LSFem06 and LSFem07 with respective infants left but I couldn't find any other video with a dorsal infant of this size. Maybe they are the same or they do not belong to this group because they are only seen alone and each only once.
For ACP0005wl2 and the second female in ACP0005w4v (with a ventral infant and rather dark) - their swellings look totally different. Of course, we expect a changing swelling in a cycling female, but first, with such a young infant she should not cycle, and second, if all we have is a ventral infant and two different looking swellings, I don't know on what we are basing the match.
Females are not seen as often in habituated chimps as well, and we have a lot of males here. I don't think that we only have this few females. This was the site with the least open views and I do think we did not see them well enough for certain matches.
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