How Do We Eat? Hypothesis of Foraging Strategy from the Viewpoint of Gustation in Primates
How Do We Eat? Hypothesis of Foraging Strategy from the Viewpoint of Gustation in Primates
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我们怎么吃？
DOI：
10.1007/978-4-431-09423-4_5
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发表时间：
2008
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Y. Ueno
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作者：
Y. Ueno
饮食是包括人类在内的动物的基本活动之一。我们人类通常一天要吃好几次。人类可以食用相当广泛的植物和动物食物，因此被称为杂食性猿。此外，无论营养是否充足，人类都无法忍受持续摄入单调的食物。尽管这种行为在人类中很明显，但除人类以外的许多灵长类动物也食用多种食物，包括植物和动物，例如昆虫。例如，黑猩猩和狒狒甚至捕食小型哺乳动物。由于这种喂养策略，灵长类动物通常被标记为杂食动物。
Eating is one of the fundamental activities of animals, including humans. We humans usually have to eat several times in a day. Humans can consume quite a wide range of plants and animal foods and so are called omnivorous apes. Also, humans cannot tolerate continuous ingestion of monotonous foods irrespective of nutritional sufficiency. Although this behavior is conspicuous in humans, many primates other than humans also consume a variety of foods, including plants and animals such as insects. Chimpanzees and baboons, for example, even hunt small mammals. As a result of this feeding strategy, the primates are generally labeled as omnivores.