On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 12:04:10 -0800, Wally Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Have you ever looked at the teeth of a gorilla? The
>look like BIG knives, bigger than dogs. They are used
>to TEAR course vegetable matter as well as for
>defense. If you saw a gorilla for the first time you
>would not guess that it was mostly vegetarian.

Thank you for the nice pictures.
I looked at the gorilla theeth
- they look dangerous indeed.

But vegetarian. Behind the big front teeth (weapon or tool) you see a nice
row of flat roughened grinding teeth. A dog, as I learned at school, has
cutting knifes also in the back row.
Take your own look.
http://home.earthlink.net/~caapi/imag_primates/gorillateeth.jpg

Amadeus