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
observing and accurately recording their activities.

...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.

Throughout the day, the gorilla tribe lazily walks through the jungle,
eating incessantly as it walks.

...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....

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.