Feeding rates and energy deficits of juvenile and adult Japanese monkeys in a cool temperate area with snow coverage

Ecological Research

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 291-301

  Nakayama, Yuri ^a   Matsuoka, Shiro ^b   Watanuki, Yutaka ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Regional Sciences Faculty of Letters Hokkaido University ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Body mass; Energy crisis; Feeding rate; Food quality; Primates

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BUDGET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INGESTION RATE; PRIMATE;

MACACA; MACACA FUSCATA; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033199516     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1703.1999.143306.x     Document Type: Article

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