Gorillas Going Green

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo are adjusting gorilla diets in an effort to understand and treat cardiac issues in the animals.

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Education

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• Gorilla
• Diet
• Zoos
• Case

[shellbell78028]

@InvisiMan2006 I hope you're not using the China Study as the basis for your thinking, because that study was terribly done and the conclusions wee dicey at best.

[fearsclave]

@InvisiMan2006 : You're misinformed about human meat consumption, I'm afraid. There is simply no debate in the anthropological community that we're omnivores.

As for hunting, well, you're wired to do it; you're descended from a couple million years worth of hunters, you'd love it if you tried it, trust me, and it's no more wrong for us to hunt and eat meat than it is for gorillas to eat leaves. We evolved eating the stuff, and it's a large part of the optimal human diet.

[thespecter2]

@RockSalami Our species has so much genetic variability and biological diversity there is some truth to that. But there is also truth to what can be optimal. I do believe there are optimal human diets consisting of basic, whole foods.

[RockSalami]

@thespecter2 I know the answer, I stated it in general terms, because that's the best anyone can say. Life is dynamic. And it will be variable per person at different times of their life. We are omnivores, biologically speaking. Tools, fire, and cooking are fundamentals in human biological and cultural evolutional development, going back hundreds of thousands of years, at least.

[KINGOFDARKNESS48]

Kids In Africa Die EveryDay !

Feed Them First

[translatoractivist]

@alwaysbelieve1 hey I am into a veggie debate ... would you help me? do gorillas eat meat? I know monkeys occasionally do it but I am not sure about gorillas... I am vegan and a guy is challenging me on this topic... I want to win , he s an arrogant! thanks!

[TheGraceofChrist]

@fearsclave Wild game is probably the only meat safe to eat at this point. Hope that's all you eat. Most meat (besides the growth hormone, antibiotic inoculations and being hoarded in their mananure) is now being finished off with unnatural corn, even grass fed beef (label has to say 100% grass fed) or in the case of chicken, arsenic. It's criminal what's being done to our food.

[alwaysbelieve1]

Gorillas are herbivores anyway always eating plant based in the wild. Funny thing is they're 1 of the strongest animals in nature and the only plants. Knowing this is 1 main reason why I've gone almost exclusively plant based in my own eating.

[darlingsapphire1]

From a way way back as you say, man ate animal flesh because they seen some animals

eat other animals, soon they found they could eat vegetation, but since the animal flesh

didn't taste too bad they kep on eating without conscience. In the era of the twenty-first

century, especially, more and more highly intelligent humans are eating vegetation rather

than hurting the animal and becoming more and more healthier.I am vegetarian fifteen years ago.I am 77 yrs, never been sick since.Iove animals

[j2theon05]

The problem is they need to go back to the rain forest and eat fresh vegetable out the ground same with us eat when Pict.

[thespecter2]

@RockSalami That isn't the answer. That "whatever works for you" is a politically correct, non diet-discriminatory cop-out. You can admit that you or anyone else hasn't found the answer, that would work.