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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Apr 15.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Primatol. 2022 Oct 19;85(1):e23439. doi: 10.1002/ajp.23439

Table 2.

Mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) from the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and Virunga Conservation Region orally shedding GbbCMV between November 2012 and June 2013 summarized by age and sex.

Age Group Sex Period Prevalence 95% Binomial Exact CI
Infant Male 0.35 0.15 - 0.59
Female 0.13 0.02 - 0.38
Unknown 0.00 0.00 - 0.26
Juvenile Male 0.21 0.09 - 0.39
Female 0.08 0.00 - 0.38
Unknown 0.18 0.02 - 0.52
Subadult Male 0.27 0.06 - 0.61
Female 0.00 0.00 - 0.52
Adult Male 0.05 0.02 - 0.12
Female 0.11 0.06 - 0.19

Infants were defined as gorillas less than three years of age, juveniles as three to five, subadults as six to seven, adult females as eight years and older, black backs as eight to 11 years, and silverbacks as 12 years and older [Robbins et al., 2009; Williamson and Gerald-Steklis, 2001].