Avian geophagy and soil characteristics in southeastern Peru

Biotropica

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 534-543

  Brightsmith, Donald J ^a   Muñoz Najar, Romina Aramburú ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AGRARIA LA MOLINA   (Peru)

Author keywords

Cation exchange capacity; Geophagy; Macaw; Moist tropical forest; Parrot; Particle size; Peru; Psittacidae; Salinity; Sodium

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GEOPHAGY; SALINITY; SOIL PROPERTY;

PERU; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AVES; GALLIFORMES; PSITTACIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 12244252343     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2004.tb00348.x     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. BEST, L. B., AND G. P. GIONFRIDDO. 1991. Characterization of grit use by cornfield birds. Wilson Bull. 103: 68-82.
2. BRIGHTSMITH, D. 2004. Effects of weather on avian geophagy in Tambopata, Peru. Wilson Bull. 116: 134-145.
3. BURCHILL, S., M. H. B. HAYES, AND D. J. GREENLAND. 1981. Adsorption. In D. J. Greenland and M. H. B. Hayes (Eds.). The chemistry of soil processes, pp. 221-400. John Wiley and Sons, New York, New York.
4. BURGER, J., AND M. GOCHFELD. 2003. Parrot behavior at a Rio Manu (Peru) clay lick: Temporal patterns, associations, and antipredator responses. Acta Ethol. 6: 23-34.
5. DAYKIN, P. W. 1960. Veterinary applied pharmacology and therapeutics. Bailliére, Tindall and Cox, London, England.
6. DIAMOND, J., K. D. BISHOP, AND J. D. GILARDI. 1999. Geophagy in New Guinea hirds. Ibis 141: 181-193.
7. EMMONS, L. H., AND N. M. STARK. 1979. Elemental composition of a natural mineral lick in Amazonia. Biotropica 11:311-313.
8. GIBBONS, J. D. 1985. Nonparametric methods for quantitative analysis. American Sciences, Columbus, Ohio.
9. GILARDI, J. D. 1996. Ecology of parrots in the Peruvian Amazon: Habitat use, nutrition, and geophagy. Ph.D. dissertation. University of California at Davis, Davis, California.
10. _, S. S. DUFFEY, C. A. MUNN, AND L. A. TELL. 1999. Biochemical functions of geophagy in parrots: Detoxification of dietary toxins and cytoprotective effects. J. Chem. Ecol. 25: 897-922.
11. _, AND C. A. MUNN. 1998. Patterns of activity, flocking and habitat use in parrots of the Peruvian Amazon. Condor 100: 641-653.
12. HOLDRIDGE, L. R. 1967. Life zone ecology, revised edition. Tropical Science Center, San Jose, Costa Rica.
13. JONES, R. L., AND H. C. HANSON. 1985. Mineral licks, geophagy, and biogeochemistry of North American ungulates. Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa.
14. KLAUS, G., AND B. SCHMID. 1998. Geophagy at natural licks and mammal ecology: A review. Mammalia 62: 481-497.
15. KNEZEVICH, M. 1998. Geophagy as a therapeutic mediator of endoparasitism in a free-ranging group of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Am. J. Primatol. 44: 71-82.
16. KREULEN, D. A. 1985. Lick Use by large herbivores: A review of benefits and banes of soil consumption. Mammal Rev. 15: 107-123.
17. _, AND T. JAEGER. 1984. The significance of soil ingestion in the utilization of arid rangelands by large herbivores, with special reference to natural licks on the Kalahari pans. In F. M. C. Gilchrist and R. I. Mackie (Eds.). Herbivore nutrition in the subtropics and tropics, pp. 202-221. Science Press, Johannesburgh, South Africa.
18. KRISTINAMANI, R., AND W. C. MAHANEY. 2000. Geophagy among primates: Adaptive significance and ecological consequences. Anim. Behav. 59: 899-915.
19. MAHANEY, W. C., S. AUFRETTER, AND R. G. V. HANCOCK. 1995. Mountain gorilla geophagy: A possible seasonal behavior for dealing with the effects of dietary changes. Int. J. Primatol. 16: 475-488.
20. _, R. G. V. HANCOCK, S. AUFRETTER, AND M. A. HUFFMAN. 1996. Geochemistry and clay mineralogy of termite mound soil and the role of geophagy in chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania. Primates 37: 121-134.
21. _, A. STAMBOLIC, M. KNEZEVICH, R. G. V. HANCOCK, S. AUFRETTER, K. SANMUGADAS, M. J. KESSLEK, AND M. D. GRYNPAS. 1995. Geophagy amongst rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico. Primates 36: 323-333.
22. _, J. ZIPPIN, M. W. MILNER, K. SANMUGADAS, R. G. V. HANCOCK, S. AUFRETTER, S. CAMPBELL, M. A. HUFFMAN, M. WINK, D. MALLOCH, AND V. KALM. 1999. Chemistry, mineralogy and microbiology of termite mound soil eaten by the chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains, western Tanzania. J. Trop. Ecol. 15: 565-588.
23. OATES, J. F. 1978. Water - plant and soil consumption by guereza monkeys Colobus guereza: A relationship with minerals and toxins in the diet? Biotropica 10: 241-253.
24. PEARSON, D. L., AND J. A. DERR. 1986. Seasonal patterns of lowland forest floor arthropod abundance in southeastern Peru. Biotropica 18: 244-256.
25. SOKAL, R. R., AND F. J. ROHLE. 1995. Biometry, 3rd edition. W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, New York.
26. SPOSTTO, G. 1989. The chemistry of soils. Oxford University Press, New York, New York.
27. TAN, K. H. 1996. Soil sampling, preparation, and analysis. Marcel Dekker, New York, New York.
28. VERMEER, D. E., AND R. R. J. FERRELL. 1985. Nigerian geophagical clay: A traditional antidiarrheal pharmaceutical. Science 227: 634-636.
29. WILEY, A. S., AND S. H. KATZ. 1998. Geophagy in pregnancy. A test of a hypothesis. Curr. Anthropol. 39: 532-545.
30. WINK, M., A. HOFER, M. BILFINGER, E. ENGLERT, M. MARTIN, AND D. SCHNEIDER. 1993. Geese and dietary allelochemicals - Food palatability and geophagy. Chemoecology 4: 93-107.