Alfred, the Zoo Gorilla
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1Diet.?This was a difficulty. The normal food for a gorilla is the tops of bamboo shoots and wild celery, which means an enormous amount of roughage : a male gorilla is said to pass 1 cwt. of faeces a day. The Zoo diet arranged for him was milk, special wholemeal bread, and bananas (he was having forty-eight a day at the outbreak of war), and when bananas were no longer obtainable they were replaced by potatoes, lightly boiled in their skins. He also ate such fruit and Vegetables as were in season. This was quite successful.
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