Tara Stoinski
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They have one of the highest elevation ranges.
So they're climbing 3,000 to 4,000 feet a day with their equipment to get to the gorillas, filming them coming back out.
Yeah, he was too.
He was infant.
Gichurasi.
When he was sick, as you said.
When he was sick, yeah.
And at first, the females still really align with Gichurasi.
They follow him.
Gichurasi loses the fight.
But even despite the fact that he lost the fight, the females stay.
Teta.
She stays, and she's kind of the leader of the females.
She stays very aligned with him.
And so he can keep his dominance.
I think these females are really smart.
They need these males to protect their infants.
because they are susceptible, generally, from males from other families that will come in and target their babies.
So, Gichirasi's health was not great, and they probably could see the writing on the wall, and so they did transfer allegiance to Abuzu, but Gichirasi stayed in the group.
Oh, okay.