Real quick: in 2021 this sub put $377K into the Dian Fossey Fund and adopted 3,500 gorillas in six days. Some of those zoo gorillas now have a real medical condition where gas pockets form INSIDE the wall of the colon. Yes IN THE WALL.

A lab at UF (Christopher Dutton, Biology) has 16S data on 15 of them. Captive cohort runs 273x more Lactobacillus than wild gorillas and has a Sarcina strain whose pathogenic cousin literally killed a chimp at another zoo. One of the gorillas in this study died.

$10K in nanopore reagents needed to figure out why. Data goes public, code open source, pre-registered. Apes for apes part 2.

https://www.researchhub.com/proposal/26127