Nutritional aspects of fruit choice by chimpanzees

Folia Primatologica

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 154-162

  Matsumoto Oda, Akiko ^a   Hayashi, Yukako ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Fruit diet; Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PAN TROGLODYTES SCHWEINFURTHII; TROGLODYTES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032986836     PISSN: 00155713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000021688     Document Type: Article

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