Paula wrote:

> My last excerpt from The Steak Lover's Diet-
>
> P.157 "To learn about humans, animals are frequently used by medical
> researchers.  The closer the animal's body and behavior resemble humans,
> the more valid the conclusions.  Of all creatures, the gorilla most
> closely resembles humans, physically and socially.
>
> The gorilla is a 100-percent vegetarian.  In his book The Year of the
> Gorilla, George B. Schaller provides the most scientific account ever
> written of African gorillas living in their native environment.
>
> For a year, Schaller lived with the gorillas as virtually one of them -
> sleeping close at hand and spending practically every hour of the day
>
> Schaller describes the gorilla as a timid animal.  Translation of the
> African word gorilla is 'lazy man of the jungle.'...Schaller finds that
> gorillas are an endangered species not because of native hunters or
> leopards, but because of their feeble sexual instinct.
>
> For the male gorilla to respond to an ovulating female, she must first
> engage in continually rubbing his genitals and in using all her feminie
> charms to arouse him - and even then she does not always succeed."
>
> Paula H.

What is the point of this post;  I find the documentaries on National
Geographic concerning gorillas to be intensely interesting;  the chimpanzee
is actually a closer dna relative on the evolutionary tree;  the gorilla's
evolved dietary niche has very little to do with homo sapien's. The loss of
habitat combined with killing by rifles is why this very intelligent
creature is on the verge of extinction;  This is one of the silliest but
disturbing posts I have seen on this list.