Increase in tannin consumption by sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi) females during the birth season: A case for self-medication in prosimians?

Primates

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-66

  Carrai, Valentina ^a   Borgognini Tarli, Silvana M ^a   Huffman, Michael A ^b   Bardi, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Condensed tannins; Reproductive benefits; Self medication; Sifaka females

Indexed keywords

FOOD SELECTION; HEALTH IMPACT; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; TANNIN;

KIRINDY FOREST; MADAGASCAR;

PRIMATES; PROPITHECUS; PROPITHECUS SP.; PROPITHECUS VERREAUXI; PROPITHECUS VERREAUXI VERREAUXI; STREPSIRHINI;

TANNIN DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CHEMISTRY; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LACTATION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PREGNANCY; PROSIMIAN; SEASON; SELF MEDICATION;

ANIMALS; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LACTATION; MALE; PARTURITION; PLANTS, EDIBLE; PREGNANCY; SEASONS; SELF MEDICATION; STREPSIRHINI; TANNINS;

EID: 0038623241     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-002-0008-6     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Aerts RJ, Barry TN, McNabb WC (1999) Polyphenols and agriculture: beneficial effects of proanthocyanidins in forages. Agric Ecosyst Environ 75:1 12
2. Athanasiadou S, Kyriazakis I, Jackson F, Coop RL (2001) Direct anthelminthic effects of condensed tannins towards different gastrointestinal nematodes of sheep: in vitro and in vivo studies. Vet Parasitol 99:205 219
3. Baker M (1996) Fur rubbing: use of medicinal plants by capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus). Am J Primatol 38:263 270
4. Barry TN, McNabb WC (1999) The implications of condensed tannins on the nutritive value of temperate forages fed to ruminants. Br J Nutr 81:263 272
5. Biagi GL, Speroni E (1988) Farmacognosia. Patron. Bologna
6. Birkinshaw CR (1999) Use of millipedes by black lemurs to anoint their bodies. Folia Primatol 70:170 171
7. Blaxter KL (1989) Energy metabolism in animals and man. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
8. Carrai V (1999) Eco-etologia di Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi, lemure della famiglia Indriidae. Dissertation, University of Pisa, Pisa (Italy) Available from Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Rome and Florence
9. Cooney DO, Struhsaker TT (1997) Absorptive capacity of charcoals eaten by Zanzibar red colobus monkeys: implications for reducing dietary toxins. Int J Primatol 18:235 246
10. Coop RL, Holmes PH (1996) Nutrition and parasite interaction. Int J Parasitol 26:951 962
11. Coop RL, Kryiazakis I (1999) Nutrition-parasite interaction. Vet Parasitol 84:187 204
12. Cousins D, Huffman MA (2002) Medicinal properties in the diet of gorillas an ethnopharmacological evaluation. Afr Stud Monogr 23:65 89
13. Engel C (2002) Wild health. Houghton and Mifflin, New York
14. Ganzhorn JU (1989) Primate species separation in relation to secondary plant chemicals. J Hum Evol 4:125 132
15. Garey J, Markiewicz L, Gurpide E (1992) Estrogenic flowers, a stimulus for mating activity in female vervet monkeys. In: Proceedings of the XIVth Congress of the International Primatological Society (Abstracts). Strasbourg, p 210
16. Glander EK (1980) Reproduction and population growth in freeranging mantled howling monkeys. Am J Phys Anthropol 53:25 36
17. Glander EK (1982) The impact of plant secondary compounds on primate feeding behavior. Yearb Phys Anthropol 25:1 18
18. Glander EK (1994) Nonhuman primate self-medication with wild plant foods. In: Etkin NL (ed) Eating on the wild side: the pharmacologic, ecologic and social implications of using noncultigens. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. pp 239 256
19. Hays WL (1991) Statistics. Harcourt Brace. Orlando, Fla.
20. Houdijk JGM, Jessop NS, Kyriazakis I (2001) Nutrient partitioning between reproductive and immune functions in animals. Proc Nutr Soc 60:515 525
21. Huffman MA (2001) Self-medicative behavior in the African great apes: an evolutionary perspective into the origins of human traditional medicine. Bioscience 51:651 661
22. Huffman MA, Caton JM (2001) Self-induced increase of gut motility and the control of parasite infections in wild chimpanzees. Int J Primatol 22:329 346
23. Huffman MA, Seifu M (1989) Observation on the illness and consumption of a possibly medicinal plant Vernonia amygdalina (Del.), by a wild chimpanzee in the Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania. Primates 30:51 63
24. Huffman MA, Gotoh S, Izutsu D, Koshimizu K, Kalunde MS (1993) Further observations on the use of the medicinal plant. Vernonia amygdalina (Del) by a wild chimpanzee, its possible effect on parasite load, and its phytochemistry. Afr Stud Monogr 14:227 240
25. Huffman MA, Page JE, Sukhdeo MVK, Gotoh S, Kalunde MS, Chandrasiri T, Towers GHN (1996) Leaf-swallowing by chimpanzees, a behavioral adaptation for the control of strongyle nematode infections. Int J Primatol 72:475-503
26. Huffman MA, Ohigashi H, Kawanaka, Page JE, Kirby GC, Gasquet M, Murakami A, Koshimizu K (1998) African great ape self-medication: a new paradigm for treating parasite disease with natural medicines. In: Ageta A, Aimi N, Ebizuka Y, Fujita T, Honda G (eds) Towards natural medicine research in the 21st century. Elsevier, Excerpta Medica, Amsterdam, pp 113-122
27. Janzen DH (1978) Complications in interpreting the chemical defenses of trees against tropical arboreal plant-eating vertebrates, In: Montgomery GG (ed) The ecology of arboreal folivores. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., pp 73-84
28. Jessops NS (1997) Protein metabolism during lactation. Proc Nutr Soc 56:169-175
29. Krishnamani R, Mahaney WC (2000) Geophagy among primates: adaptive significance and ecological consequences. Anim Behav 59:899-915
30. Phillips-Conroy JE (1986) Baboons, diet, and disease: food plant selection and schistosomiasis. In: Taub D. King F (eds) Current perspectives in primate social dynamics. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, pp 287 304
31. Richard AF, Rakotomanga P, Schwartz M (1991) Demography of Propithecus verreauxi at Beza Mahafali, Madagascar: sex ratio, survival, and fertility, 1984-1988. Am J Phys Anthropol 84:307-322
32. Sauther ML (1994) Wild plant use by pregnant and lactating ringtailed lemurs with implications for early hominid foraging In: Etkin LN (ed) Eating on the wild side. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, pp 240-256
33. Strier KB (1993) Menu for a monkey. Nat Hist 102:34-43
34. Valderrama X. Robinson JG. Attygale AB. Eisner T (2000) Seasonal anointment with millipedes in a wild primate: a chemical defense against insects? J Chem Ecol 26:2781-2790
35. Vasey N (2000) Niche separation in Varecia variegata rubra and Eulemur fulvus albifrons. I. Interspecific patterns. Am J Phys Anthropol 112:411 431
36. Vasey N (2002) Niche separation in Varecia variegata rubra and Eulemur fulvus albifrons. II. Intraspecific patterns. Am J Phys Anthropol 118:169 183
37. Wakibara J. Huffman MA, Wink M, Reich S, Aufreiter RGV, Hancock R, Mahaney Russ S (2001) The adaptive significance of geophagy for Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) at Arashiyama, Japan. Int J Primatol 22:495-520
38. Wallis J (1997) A survey of reproductive parameters in the free-ranging chimpanzees of Gombe National Park. J Reprod Fertil 109:297 307
39. Whitten PL (1983) Flowers, fertility and females (abstract). Am J Phys Anthropol 60:269-270
40. Wrangham RW (1995) Relationship of chimpanzee leaf-swallowing to a tapeworm infection. Am J Primatol 37:297-303
41. Wrangham RW, Nishida T (1983) Aspilia spp. leaves: a puzzle in the feeding behavior of wild chimpanzees. Primates 24: 276 282