All four plants showed antibacterial activity against ... We also don't know for sure that the gorillas are eating bark from ...

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coli. The gorillas also eat three other plants that are utilized in local medicine, although the antibacterial properties of the tree bark itself may explain why gorillas here can harbor E.

"This suggests that gorillas evolved to eat plants that benefit them, and highlights the huge gaps in our knowledge of the Central African rainforests," said Dr Joanna Setchell, an anthropologist ...

Tierra Smiley Evans from UC Davis and Gorilla Doctor Fred Nizeyimana collect saliva samples from chewed plants discarded by mountain gorillas in Uganda's Bwindi Forest in 2013. Credit must be ...