Brief communication: Maximum ingested bite size in captive western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla).

Objectives: Previously, we found that maximum ingested bite size (V ), the largest piece of food an animal can consume without biting it into smaller pieces first, isometrically scales relative to body size in strepsirrhines and with negative allometry in anthropoids. In the current study, we rectify the omission of great apes from the earlier sample to now characterize the V of the entire size-range of the order.

Materials And Methods: Five gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla-G.