Fortunately, gorillas are not actually affected by this because their diet includes bamboo shoots, succulent herbs, and many fruits which contain a lot of water. They will rest longer when it's raining heavily, putting off their next meal until the weather calms down. In the 60 pounds of vegetation they consume daily, there is enough water to sustain the gorilla, especially during the rainy season.Gorillas have three main feeding periods each day to reach the approximately 60 pounds of food they need. He is in charge of finding the group food, and is also the one who mates with most of the females and fathers most of the offspring in the group.Grahame Turner has worked as a freelance writer since 2009 and a freelance reporter since 2010 for Wellesley Patch and Jamaica Plain Patch in Massachusetts. Baby gorillas have longer childhoods than many other mammals, and will exclusively nurse from their mother for about 5-6 months. Silverbacks also eat rotting wood and small animals from time to time. In other words, they were eating processed, calorie-dense chow that was a far cry from their natural diet in the wild (with the good intention of ensuring that the gorillas received all the nutrition they required).Their starchy, sugar-laden diet reminded me of my childhood meals. Both apes were treated with human heart drugs, including beta blockers and ACE inhibitors, but seemed to on be a tragic trajectory, given this shocking fact: Incredibly, heart disease is the leading killer in Western lowland gorillas in North American zoos, according to Heart disease also ranks as the number one cause of death in American men and women, claiming 1 in 4 lives, Yet in the wild, apes don't develop obesity, diabetes or heart disease, a mystery that used to perplex veterinarians. In other words, they were eating processed, calorie-dense chow that was a far cry from their natural diet in the wild (with the good intention of ensuring that the gorillas received all the nutrition they required).
Aping a wild gorilla's eating habits could dramatically improve your health -- or may even add years to your life, by reducing your risk for killer diseases like diabetes, heart attack, stroke and dementia.What's more, embracing your inner beast could help you slim down, without having to resort to a highly restrictive, low-calorie diet that leaves you ravenous and grumpy.If that sounds hard to believe, I'd like to share the remarkable discoveries I've made during a 20-year quest for healing foods, culminating with my upcoming book, Based on my family history (if you believe that genetics determine your destiny), I should be obese, diabetic, and afflicted by heart disease -- with high risk for dementia looming in the future. Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla): This subspecies consumes parts of at least 97 plant species. Eat more, and more often. The other 30 percent should come from high-quality, lean protein. After taking body size into account, they found that humans averaged about 400 more calories per day than chimps and bonobos—635 calories more than gorillas and 820 calories more than orangutans.
To sustain a body that size, silverback gorillas need to eat a lot of food every day, and make sure they get all the right nutrients into their systems.The bulk of the mountain gorilla diet is vegetation. All rights reserved. Like most zoo gorillas, Mokolo and Bebac were fed several servings of "nutritional cookies," made from grains, starch and sugar. What do Gorillas Like to Eat.