Editing Gorilla (section)

=== Interspecies interactions ===
One possible predator of gorillas is the [[leopard]]. Gorilla remains have been found in leopard scat, but this may be the result of scavenging.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fay |first1=J. M. |last2=Carroll |first2=R. |last3=Kerbis Peterhans |first3=J. C. |last4=Harris |first4=D. |year=1995 |url=http://www.catsg.org/catsglib/recordetail.php?recordid=5654 |title=Leopard attack on and consumption of gorillas in the Central African Republic |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=93–99 |doi=10.1006/jhev.1995.1048 |bibcode=1995JHumE..29...93F |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403130757/http://www.catsg.org/catsglib/recordetail.php?recordid=5654 |archive-date=3 April 2012}}</ref> When the group is attacked by humans, leopards, or other gorillas, an individual silverback will protect the group, even at the cost of his own life.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.awf.org/content/wildlife/detail/mountaingorilla |title=Wildlife: mountain gorilla |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217164839/http://www.awf.org/content/wildlife/detail/mountaingorilla |archive-date=17 February 2012 |publisher=[[African Wildlife Foundation|AWF]] |access-date=27 September 2011}}</ref> Gorillas do not appear to directly compete with [[chimpanzee]]s in areas where they overlap. When fruit is abundant, gorilla and chimpanzee diets converge, but when fruit is scarce gorillas resort to vegetation.<ref name="Tutin1993">{{cite journal |last1=Tutin |first1=C. E. G. |last2=Fernandez |first2=M. |year=1993 |title=Composition of the diet of chimpanzees and comparisons with that of sympatric lowland gorillas in the Lopé reserve, Gabon |journal=American Journal of Primatology |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=195–211 |doi=10.1002/ajp.1350300305 |pmid=31937009 |s2cid=84681736}}</ref> The two apes may also feed on different species, whether fruit or insects.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stanford |first1=C. B. |last2=Nkurunungi |first2=J. B. |year=2003 |title=Behavioral ecology of sympatric chimpanzees and gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda: diet |journal=International Journal of Primatology |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=901–918 |doi=10.1023/A:1024689008159 |s2cid=22587913}}</ref><ref name="Tutin">{{cite journal |last1=Tutin |first1=C. E. G. |last2=Fernandez |first2=M. |year=1992 |title=Insect-eating by sympatric lowland gorillas (''Gorilla g. gorilla'') and chimpanzees (''Pan t. troglodytes'') in the Lopé Reserve, Gabon |journal=American Journal of Primatology |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=29–40 |doi=10.1002/ajp.1350280103 |pmid=31941221 |s2cid=85569302}}</ref><ref name="Deblauwe">{{cite journal |last1=Deblauwe |first1=I. |year=2007 |title=New insights in insect prey choice by chimpanzees and gorillas in Southeast Cameroon: The role of nutritional value |journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology |volume=135 |issue=1 |pages=42–55 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.20703 |pmid=17902166}}</ref> Gorillas and chimpanzees may ignore or avoid each other when feeding on the same tree,<ref name="Tutin1993"/><ref>{{cite book |last=Galdikas |first=B. M. |year=2005 |title=Great ape odyssey |publisher=Abrams |page=89 |isbn=978-1435110090}}</ref> but they have also been documented to form social bonds.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Sanz|first1=C. M.|display-authors=etal|year=2022|title=Interspecific interactions between sympatric apes|journal=iScience|volume=25|issue=10|page=105059|doi=10.1016/j.isci.2022.105059|pmid=36147956 |pmc=9485909 |bibcode=2022iSci...25j5059S }}</ref> Conversely, coalitions of chimpanzees have been observed attacking families of gorillas including silverbacks and killing infants.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Southern |first1=L. M. |last2=Deschner |first2=T. |last3=Pika |first3=S. |year=2021 |title=Lethal coalitionary attacks of chimpanzees (''Pan troglodytes troglodytes'') on gorillas (''Gorilla gorilla gorilla'') in the wild|journal=Scientific Reports |volume=11 |issue=1 |page=14673 |doi=10.1038/s41598-021-93829-x |pmid=34282175 |pmc=8290027|bibcode=2021NatSR..1114673S }}</ref>