Do gorillas eat fruit?

When fruits are in season, western gorillas will spend more time foraging for fruits. Meanwhile, in the dry season, they will eat more leaves, stems, and other low-quality vegetable matter. On the other hand, eastern gorillas predominantly eat foliage, as fruit is more scarce in their habitats.

Do gorillas eat termites?

Gorillas stick to a mainly vegetarian diet, feeding on stems, bamboo shoots and fruits. Western lowland gorillas, however, also have an appetite for termites and ants, and break open termite nests to eat the larvae. Do gorillas live alone? Gorillas move around in family groups that can range from a couple of individuals to more than 40 members.

Could a wild gorilla diet improve the health of gorillas?

To test if a switch to the wild Gorillas diet would improve the health of gorillas, a researcher in the North Carolina Zoo embarked on research where he substituted the commercially produced food with leaves, plants, and fruits that are easily obtainable in the forest.

What is a gorilla ape?

The largest of the great apes, gorillas are stocky animals with broad chests and shoulders, large, human-like hands, and small eyes set into hairless faces. The two gorilla species live in equatorial Africa, separated by about 560 miles of Congo Basin forest. Each has a lowland and upland subspecies.