Gut passage rate in guenons and mangabeys: another indicator of a flexible feeding niche?
Gut passage rate in guenons and mangabeys: another indicator of a flexible feeding niche?
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长尾猴和白眉猴的肠道通过率:灵活喂养生态位的另一个指标?
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10.1159/000156725
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1993
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F. Maisels
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F. Maisels
Recent work on the feeding ecology of arboreal guenons and mangabeys in Central Zaire showed that these normally frugivorous species [1, 2] fed largely on leaves, arils and seeds and ate only 5-12% fleshy fruit [3; unpubl. data]. Two main factors affect the level of available nutrients in a plant: firstly its digestibility, which depends largely on cell wall content and secondly the gut passage rate (GPR) of the consumer [4], Leaves, which have a higher proportion of cell wall material than succulent fruit, require a longer time in the gut for efficient digestion [4, 5], Studies of GPR conducted on primates [5-8], including both frugivorous and omnivor ous species, show that (1) when monkeys are