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. 2006 Apr 25;2(3):321–324. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0480

Table 1.

Sodium content of foods (mg kg−1) eaten by Bwindi gorillas. (Different superscripts indicate significance at p≤0.03 between grouped plant parts.)

dry weight wet weight


plant part n mean median mean median
leaves 47 75.7±95.1 60.0a 18.5±15.1 14.3a,b
fruit 15 54.7±30.4 50.0a 14.8±9.5 11.5a
pith/stem 8 253.8±241.2 160.0a 30.0±16.8 35.8b
bark 15 75.3±25.0 70.0a 23.9±16.0 20.8a,b
wood 15 810.7±466.9 690.0b 537.0±411.5 334.0c