shipwrecked Why do friendly primeapes eat flowers? And should this be changed?

[Sir Squidington]

I have a gripe with the primeape AI .Primeapes, when befriended by the player (or around Wilbur) prioritizes eating collected items over throwing them to the player. I can see how this would be needed to prevent the apes from throwing given bananas, but it results in  them picking and eating all the flowers in the area. While they also eat berries and farm foods,  they do that anyway and it adds to their mischievous, pesky role in the game. But because primeapes try to pick flowers only after being befriended, making them followers is granting them the ability to destroy flowers. Was this an oversight? Might I suggest that primeapes, under no circumstances, should be able to pick flowers? Or maybe there should be some other solution.