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On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, TempestTerriers wrote:
> The gorilla is a 100-percent vegetarian.
False. Gorillas, like all primates, are omnivores. They do eat
insects and other small creatures when they can get them,
although they are not hunters.
> ...He found that the gorilla is totally herbivorous and arises early in
> the morning hours to start eating. The first thing the animal does is
> reach for food left nearby from the preceding day, put it into his
> mouth, and begin eating.
Note that a gorilla's diet is not very different from a
chimpanzee's, but the gorilla's larger size creates an
exponentially larger caloric demand.
> ...Due to their vegetarian diet and the inability of their man-like
> gastrointestinal system to digest the food, copious amounts of fecal
> material are deposited...Additionally, the gorilla's vegetarian food
> produces tremendous amounts of intestinal gas....
This is idiotic. Man-like? Gorillas were here first; they
should be well adapted to their food supply.
> 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.
If the implication is supposed to be that the gorilla's diet
makes him timid and sexually feeble, then it's a puzzle that the
chimp, on a similar diet, has the largest testes of all primates
and is more sexually active than even Michael Audette.
> 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."
Maybe Schaller's proximity was a real turn-off.
Todd Moody
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