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Endurance. All herbivorous animals have great powers of endurance. The horse will outwalk or outrun a dog on an endurance test of several days. In India the elephant is employed in tiger hunts. The tiger may mount the elephant’s trunk, but soon becomes weary, and makes away into the brush if allowed to escape. The camel will pace at a good speed across the desert for hours, and the ox will tug at the yoke for ten hours each day with but hay and a little corn to sustain him. Now that we have considered several of our domesticated herbivorous animals, let us look into the heart of Africa and study the diet of the gorilla, which though wild, is in some ways similar to man. Bees amassing this useful resource additionally need to be fed protein supplements, as honeydew lacks the protein-rich Forever Bee Pollen accompaniment gathered from flowers. It is estimated that the gorilla is ten times stronger than man, while his weight is only three times greater, showing that there is something in his habits of life which must account for such gigantic strength; and since all animals are made of what they eat, we should consider his diet.

The gorilla inhabits the mountain section of the Belgian Congo, living on the tender shoots of wild celery and young bamboo, and when in season, some berries and other fruit. He is a very peaceable animal, always avoiding trouble when possible, yet when driven into a corner, will fight furiously. There is no record of the gorilla’s ever eating flesh food.
It is interesting to examine the skeleton of this beast and note the perfect condition of the bones and especially the teeth, which are perfectly even, and show not the slightest evidence of decay. It is found that he rarely suffers from disease, but simply dies of old age. Forever Bee Propolis is sticky when it’s warm and it’s difficult to take care of when it’s hard. And while we do not claim him as an ancestor, yet there is good reason for studying his habits of eating, and consider that vegetarianism might do as much for us as it has for him.

Yale University Test. A very profitable and instructive test was conducted by Dr. Irving Fisher of Yale, and was published in the YALE MEDICAL REVIEW, and later in MUNSEY’S MAGAZINE, for the purpose of determining the comparative endurance of flesh abstainers and flesh eaters. Dr. Fisher says: “The flesh eaters were largely men in training for athletic contests at Yale; the flesh abstainers were such Yale students as I could find who did not use meat, or used it very sparingly, and nurses and physicians of the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Forty-nine subjects were tested. The results of the comparison were certainly surprising, and showed almost conclusively that those who used a low protein diet, and little or no flesh, not only had greater physical endurance, but far greater than those who were on a so-called “training diet.”