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Mountain Gorillas will also eat termites and ants when food is scarce and another site I have looked at they will also eat slugs.
So no they are not vegan although their diet consists MOSTLY of vegetation.
Oh Ashley do some research please.
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The following is from the link regarding an apes diet and a humans
Less predominant foods often "assumed away" by fiat. We have already (briefly) discussed insect consumption by gorillas and orangutans. Though insects are a small component of their diet, we note the following:
Such a dietary component cannot be "assumed away," as it may be nutritionally significant as discussed above.
A human who consumes insects (live insects are obviously a "living food"!) would not be considered a vegan or vegetarian according to the strict dietary definitions promoted by dietary advocates.
You back up everything you spout with absolutely nothing and then abuse the people who actually give you documented evidence to prove you wrong. Read the link.
You say Gorillas are vegans because they don't eat 'red meat'. So if they eat white meat and other animals/insects they are?
So if I decided to live on a diet of termites (living creatures eaten by gorillas) very similarly to this Aardwolf
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/fa鈥?/a>
I would be a vegan would I even though I'm eating another living creature? Aardwolfs are not considered vegan!
Research Ashley research is very important if you want anyone to actually take any notice of you. If you were given the task of converting me to a vegan I would run a mile because you border on the psychotic and when other vegans disagree with you as much as they say surely by now you must realise you are seriously losing the battle!Do Mountain Gorillas eat a vegan diet?
Mountain gorillas are not vegans. They feed mostly on vegetation but often eat bugs too so they are considered omnivors. If your looking for more information visit my website http://hopeforgorillas.weebly.鈥?/a>
Also Mountains gorillas will feed on other dead animals that they come upon.
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I think it has been widely proven from the posts above that Mountain Gorillas are not vegan, like they even have a concept what that means or stands for. However, I am more intrerested in how you are going to convert lions, tigers, cheetahs, snakes, sharks and all of the animals in this world that eat meat. Are you going to picket the savannah.....well maybe you should the posts would be more quiet!Do Mountain Gorillas eat a vegan diet?
They're omnivores, just like black bears, grizzly bears and other gorillas. When food is scarce, they will even cannibalize.
I like how you put any sort of argument against your weak facts as untrue. LOL. (look up infanticide amongst gorilla groups as well. It's a structural thing first off, but eating the young?! Isn't that a tad out of norms for the mountain gorilla we should all learn from?) Good luck and keep the rants coming, they're entertaining.
0,1% of their diet is larvae, snails and ants. The rest of their diet consists of vegetation. Why dont you google this stuff Ashley? You are already online.
update, Meg, you could look it up in *any* other encyclopedia, if you for some reason dont like W. You could even read a book. The point is, mountain gorillas eat MAINLY vegetation. But I dont really see your point??? Do we agree or what?Do Mountain Gorillas eat a vegan diet?
Oh for goodness sake, get a life! chimpanzee,s east meat they rip the s*** out of each other, if they are hungry and quarrel over the brain, what have animals got to do with humans eating meat JACK that's what I'm a vegetarian, who friggin cares you need to get a hobby Ashley!!!!!!!!!
Stop harping on about it! and let people enjoy what they want to eat!
mountain gorrillas are not vegan!!! they drink their moms milk, and hunt!!! stop being such an air-headed idiot Ashly!
You don't give up do you?
A mountain gorilla is much stronger than a human due to bone and muscle structure.
A caterpillar lives on a vegan diet, but that doesn't mean all human vegans move at the speed of a caterpillar...
STOP USING TWISTED HALF TRUTH LOGIC TO RALLY PEOPLE INTO YOUR SECT.
Sorry, you are wrong yet again.
Read this quote.
The diets of the eastern and western gorilla populations differ considerably. Eastern animals are predominantly folivorous, but those in the west eat great quantities of fruit. Eastern gorillas feed primarily on leaves, shoots and stems (86% of the diet in one study). Galium vines, wild celery and three or four other species make up a high proportion of the diet. Small amounts of wood, roots, flowers, fruits, and grubs also are eaten. In the western populations, fruits are the most important element in the gorillas鈥?diet, although they also eat leaves, pith and stems (e.g. wild ginger). In a study undertaken on one western lowland gorilla group in Gabon, it was found that the fruits of at least 95 plant species were utilized. It was also found in Gabon that the gorilla frequently breaks into termite nests to feed on the insects inside. Western gorillas have also been observed wading through shallow pools and swamps to harvest water plants. They further differ from eastern animals in that they occasionally include some animal food in their diet. On the other hand, it has been observed that mountain gorillas had ample opportunity to eat eggs, helpless young birds, and the honey of stingless bees but never did. (Stuart %26amp; Stuart 1996, Kingdon 1997, Nowak 1999)
Certainly not Vegetarian, and definately not Vegan.
I would say omnivore - just like Humans!.
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I just found at least one source that says that around 2 to 3% of a Mountain Gorilla's diet is made up of "termites, ants, and grubs..."
As far as I can remember... termites, ants and grubs are animals, not plants. Shame on the mountain gorillas for murdering those poor destructive pests....
I've got one for you. The Grizzly/ Kodiak bear. He likes berries , but prefers salmon. Many many many big animals are designed by nature to eat both animals and plants. Its not murder.
If no creature ate other animals, the planet would be overrun with starving critters.
Do you also object to vultures eating animals that are already dead??
Hold on while I ask the wife.
You really want to know what is wrong Ash? You trying to tell me and others what we can and cant eat. o.k.? So do us all a favor and stfu. Also gorillas are, well to put it simply so you can understand, they are gorillas and not humans...can you see the difference there? Maybe you could go live with them for awhile and study their diet and their feces another of your strange fascinations.
Well actually, Harry D., is correct, Ashley. Your comparison between a human being and a Mountain Gorilla is a false analogy. It simply is incorrect logic on your part and I feel bad that you would want to make yourself appear foolish.
Wikipedia is hardly a reliable authority to quote. The .01% of invertebrate intake is taken out of context.
Actually the quote is as follows:
"[T]he daily 2g of invertebrates makes up just 0.01% of the intake...
[However,] when invertebrates occur at high concentration in the environment they are deliberately sought by the gorillas, and not a little time sometimes expended in their procurement...
Invertebrate consumption could be necessary to satisfy trace element requirements in a species with a near-monotypic vegetarian diet [Wise, 1982]."
So the extropolated conclusion is that invertebrate consumption is perceived as needed, and where it is abundant it is actively and arduously sought by the animal.
A mountain gorilla does have a a mixed but mainly vegan diet,but imagine what us humans would look like! there are those obese looking! but if we followed there diet what would we all look like? their stomachs contain more bacteria and enzymes than the human stomach to digest the food they eat.
So I will stick to my mixed diet!
The information I could find on the Internet differs slightly. Some of it says the mountain gorilla eats only plants while other gorillas eat termites and snails, etc. Other sites I found says the mountain gorilla sometimes does that as well, so I'm just not sure.
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You are right but the mountain lion is as strong as the gorilla and that cat heats meat!
they do eat meat on occasion. look it up.
You are wrong Sorry! The mountain Gorilla actually eats whatever vegetation is available and eats insects, grubs slugs etc. Just because it isn't a predator doesn't mean it's a vegan! It's adapted to suit it's environment.
Man-kind had to eat meat to survive in their environments and still would if they lived a natural life like the 'Gorilla'. However we don't live a natural life do we?
If you had to live on a diet of native British fruit, vegetables and cereal crops and only when they were in season, how long would you stay healthy? The only reason you can live on a Vegan diet is because you can get food from all over the world, and man has cultivated those items for thousands of years. Have you ever seen a wild strawberry or wild wheat? They are tiny! Even the potatoes you probably DO EAT are not native!
The Mountain Gorilla is no stronger than the Grizzly Bear which is a meat and fish eater but I'm not stupid enough to claim that it is proof we should eat meat!
You have a choice, be thankful for it and leave others to choose their own paths through life!
Sharks eat a 100% meat diet. Maybe you should go swimming.
Hey everyone, I just found out this idiot is an animal activist and is trying to do EVERYTHING she can to save them. And get this, she is also a PETA supporter. Hey dumbass, PETA kills over 1,000 dogs every year because they are too lazy to try and find them homes. Please keep posting these great questions of yours. Every single one I have seen from you are either false, or you are making arguments against yourself. People wonder wy "trolls" come in this section and post, its because you are so full of ****, you don't even know what you believe in.
So here is another moral issue for you - how can a Gorilla of any description have a vegan diet? Do the babies not suckle at their mothers breasts or does gorilla milk not count? I know how much you hate people disagreeing with you but Zeggy is totally correct %26amp; you are totally wrong Gorillas ARE omnivores. Also there have been many documented accounts of cannibalism due to tribal selection.
Haha what a ridiculous argument!
Mice are small and butterflies are weak... therefore vegans must be small and weak.
Whales are big and lions are strong... therefore carnivores must be big and strong.
Why don't you ask your imaginary boyfriend this non-question. I'm sure he must have the same intellect as a mountain gorilla.
Here, I can justtify the "murder of millions of animals"
They're tasty.
Fine but Im not a frigging Mountain Gorrilla am I?
You're comedy!!
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