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more about #carnivores tigress: I must be on crack on something, because I could have sworn I'd read about gorillas killing and eating animals in the wild. Maybe I'm thinking of a di... more » NewsBunny: There are good zoos, and there are bad zoos. Here is the dilemma. So much of these magnificent creatures' habitat is being destroyed. So if we don'... more » Kali Mama: Yesterday I went to see Bokito, the Rotterdam zoo silverback, who was hand raised by humans and thus demands human women who make contact with him to ... more » Nimoyism: I saw a squirrel gnawing on a chicken bone outside my window once. Strange things happens. more » lilad: I don't know about gorillas, but other primates occasionally hunt and eat meat in the wild. Maybe the zoo diet is missing some nutritional component t... more » Cicada: I wonder if gorillas aren't getting the nutrients they need from their zoo diet, or if something in their diet is whacking out their hormones. Sort of... more » Brigit: WE can subsist on plants and bugs. Yet I ain't dropping my steaks bitches. I totally get where these gorillas are coming from. more » mayfly: I generally don't approve of zoos for this reason. Most animals shouldn't be kept in cages, and to do so just for our entertainment is fucked up. (Am... more » bangers: there is this gorilla at the audobon zoo in new orleans with the saddest human face. every time i see him, his eyes are just begging someone to let hi... more » HeinzDoofenshmirtz: Can it be as a result of them being fed a carnivorous diet while in captivity? more » Jack_Burton: That's because Charlize Theron doesn't visit anymore. more » ImDatNinja (loves her Red Sox): I eat wildlife but its usually only because I bike to work and the darn bugs seem to love the smell of my lipgloss. With the cost of protien going up ... more » EKane: As much as I enjoy the zoo... I can't get with gorillas and other animals in held in captivity and deprived of their natural instincts. Side note: Chi... more » Kivrin: Zoos make Kivrin ANGRY. more » LadySoprano is a Fat-Fighting Superwoman: It is for this reason I don't like zoos much. The only zoo I can really get behind is the tiny one in my hometown that takes animals that can't surviv... more » penny_lane: sigh... they're just lashing out in the only way they know how, just like people do. see people who don't believe in evolution/our kinship with monk... more » Ultraprison!: Nobody likes squirrels; the gorillas have just come up with an environmentally friendly way to take care of them. more » -
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Zoo Gorillas Will Totally Cut You
More evidence that captivity might mess up animals: 30% of zoos in one survey said their gorillas killed and ate local wildlife, even though wild gorillas seem to subsist on plants and bugs. [Economist]
