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[centrarchid]

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Hippos will eat meat when possible. Gorillas will eat termites but I am not aware of documented consumption of vertebrate meat, certainly not of sort requiring canines to subdue and dismember like a chimpanzee or baboon might do.

 

[Matthew3590]

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Hippos will eat meat when possible. Gorillas will eat termites but I am not aware of documented consumption of vertebrate meat, certainly not of sort requiring canines to subdue and dismember like a chimpanzee or baboon might do.

Gorilla's go to war with other groups of Gorilla's and the losers get eaten. Saw it on animal planet.

 

[centrarchid]

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Hippos will eat meat when possible. Gorillas will eat termites but I am not aware of documented consumption of vertebrate meat, certainly not of sort requiring canines to subdue and dismember like a chimpanzee or baboon might do.

Gorilla's go to war with other groups of Gorilla's and the losers get eaten. Saw it on animal planet.

Chimps, not gorillas. Some evidence indicates gorillas leary of same chimps when they come together in nature. Chimps bad boys just like us and will breed to numbers where warfare needed to maintain balance.

 

[cassie]

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I haven't heard anything about gorillas eating meat, but they do eat grubs and such so maybe that qualifies. Chimps hunt and kill game for meat. I don't know of a single primate that subsists wholly on a vegan diet.

 

[centrarchid]

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I haven't heard anything about gorillas eating meat, but they do eat grubs and such so maybe that qualifies. Chimps hunt and kill game for meat. I don't know of a single primate that subsists wholly on a vegan diet.

Gorillas and orangutans can give a vegan / vegetarian human a run for his / her money when it comes to operating on a nearly meatless diet. We all eat grubs now and again when eating vegetables. Intake of insects by larger primates does not require canines.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

Gorillas eat mostly plants and fruits with the specific diet determined by the sub-species' location. I seem to recall that less than 5% of their diet is composed of ants, snails, caterpillars and other insects. You're right Centrarchid, they don't eat vertebrates.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Studys testing wild Gorillas poop showed it contained monkey DNA an captive Gorillas will eat meat when its an option.

 

[centrarchid]

You appear to be correct.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...proof-gorillas-eat-monkeys-mammals-feces-dna/

Amount consumed very modest at best and canines not needed to subdue. To same extent I am known to eat broccoli and genetic evidence could be found in my scat although I am not considered by anyone, that has observed my feeding habits, to be a vegan.






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[chickened]

Lets not forget all primates eat what they pick off their buddy, Im guessing fleas and lice are meat.

Human's eyes are also forward fixed like most predators.

 

[Boyd]

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and that is all that's needed for humans to survive also..