FEEDING BEHAVIOR AND DIET OF THE JAPANESE MONKEY MACACA-FUSCATA-YAKUI ON YAKUSHIMA ISLAND JAPAN
FEEDING BEHAVIOR AND DIET OF THE JAPANESE MONKEY MACACA-FUSCATA-YAKUI ON YAKUSHIMA ISLAND JAPAN
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DOI:
10.1007/bf02374030
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
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影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
MARUHASHI T
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作者:
MARUHASHI T
Feeding behavior in a troop of 1 ssp. of the Japanese monkey, the Yakuzaru (M. f. yakui), was observed for 407 h on Yakushima Island between March and Dec. 1976, after a 3 mo. preliminary survey in 1975. The troop dwells in a mature warm temperate forest at a density of over 30 animals/km2. The 5 min scanning technique was employed from Aug.-Dec. 1976 to detect the quantitative features of feeding behavior. The members of this troop fed on 76 plant species: on the leaves of 26, the fruits of 45 and other parts of 12 spp. The Yakuzaru is essentially frugivorous. The pattern of food selection is discussed in relation to fruit production. The animals fed much more on the leaves of deciduous than of evergreen woody plants. Selection ratio, the percentage of time spent feeding on each species to the percentage abundance of each species in the sample strip, was calculated to evaluate food selection from the plant community. The food habits of this subspecies were compared with that of 6 other populations in various habitats in Japan by computing the similarity index for the woody plant community, all woody plant food species and all major woody plant food species.