Gorilla with Plant (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

Gorilla with Plant

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Mountain gorillas spend much of their time chewing and spitting out plants. Veterinary scientists found that collecting and analyzing the discarded plans can help them detect primate viruses.

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Tierra Smiley Evans/UC Davis

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