The role of taste in food selection by African apes: Implications for niche separation and overlap in tropical forests

Primates

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 56-64

  Remis, Melissa Jane ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet; Frugivory; Gorilla gorilla; Niche separation; Pan troglodytes

Indexed keywords

FRUCTOSE; TANNIN DERIVATIVE;

BODY SIZE; DIET; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FRUGIVORY; NICHE PARTITIONING; PRIMATE; TASTE; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; TASTE; TROPIC CLIMATE; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; BODY SIZE; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRUCTOSE; PAN TROGLODYTES; TANNINS; TASTE; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AFRICA;

GORILLA GORILLA; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES;

EID: 31144441718     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-005-0145-9     Document Type: Article

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