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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

How are they so ridiculously buff off a diet of leaves and fruit?

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They have different muscles than we do, good for fast strong reactions but not endurance.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yes but that doesn't answer the question. How do they have such big muscles without having a high protein intake?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    "Gorillas don't need to eat protein, because they grow their own protein in the bacteria that thrive inside of them. The gorilla consumes the vegetation to feed the bacterial colonies of their microbiome, and then absorbs the protein formed by the bacteria as they feast on the cellulose fibers of the vegetation"

    https://medium.com/@westwise/how-does-a-gorilla-get-so-strong-75c68edd3c26#:~:text=Gorillas%20don't%20need%20to,cellulose%20fibers%20of%20the%20vegetation%20.

    Tldr Gorillas apparently have better probiotics than we do. Also they eat so much more than us, even relative to bodymass, 18kg per day of biomass, which is equivalent to a human eating 9kg of biomass a day. I can eat a lot, but I don't think I could put away over 15+ pounds of any kind of food in a day.

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