pearl wrote:
> "Rudy Canoza" > wrote in message ...
>> Sympatric populations of lowland gorillas (Gorilla
>> gorilla gorilla) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes
>> troglodytes) in the Lopé Reserve in central Gabon
>> consumed insects at similar average frequencies over a
>> 7-year period (30% versus 31% feces contained insect
>> remains). Data came mostly from fecal analysis
>> supplemented by observation and trail evidence. The
>> weaver ant (Oecophylla longinoda) was the species eaten
>> most frequently by both gorillas and chimpanzees. Other
>> species of insects wore eaten but there was virtually
>> no overlap: Chimpanzees used tools to eat Apis bees
>> (and their honey) and two large species of ants;
>> gorillas ate three species of small ants. Thus, despite
>> their shared habitat, the esources utilized were not
>> identical as gorillas do not show the tool-use
>> technology of chimpanzees. The frequency of
>> insect-eating by both species of ape varied seasonally
>> and between years but in different ways. This variation
>> did not seem to be related to the ratio of fruit to
>> foliage in their diets. Gorillas of all age-classes ate
>> insects at similar rates. Comparisons with insectivory
>> by other populations of gorillas indicate differences
>> exist. Mountain gorillas (Gorilla g. beringei) in the
>> Virunga Volcanoes, Rwanda, consume thousands of
>> invertebrates daily, eating them inadvertently with
>> handfuls of herbaceous foods but they deliberately
>> ingest insect-foods only rarely. Lowland gorillas at
>> Lopé habitually ate social insects, and their selective
>> processing of herbaceous foods probably minimizes
>> inadvertent consumption of other invertebrates.
>> Gorillas at Belinga in northeastern Gabon, 250 km from
>> Lop6, ate social insects at similar rates but ignored
>> weaver ants in favor of Cubitermes sulcifrons, a small
>> species of termite that occurs at Lopé but was not
>> eaten by gorillas. This indicates that local traditions
>> similar to those reported for chimpanzees also exist
>> amongst populations of gorillas.
>>
>> http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/c...TRY=1&SRETRY=0
>
> 'Diet and seasonal changes in sympatric gorillas and chimpanzees

You haven't read that paper, and it doesn't dispute the
fact that gorillas eat LOTS of insects. They do. So
do chimpanzees.