Gorilla Gourmets

A mysterious gorilla foraging behavior explained

- Rachel Nuwer

GASTON ABEA REMEMBERS his grandfather telling him that the gorillas living near their village in the northern Republic of the Congo were digging at the soil in search of tasty ants. Abea believed this explanation for the odd behavior-until he watched it closely himself and decided it didn't quite line up with the reason given by his grandfather or other members of his Indigenous Ba'Aka community.