Feeding rate as valuable information in primate feeding ecology

Primates

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 131-141

  Nakagawa, Naofumi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Feeding rate; Feeding success; Food intake; Food quality; Optimal foraging

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD QUALITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; BODY SIZE; ECOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; ECOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PRIMATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 63749086609     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-009-0129-2     Document Type: Review

References (80)

1. Barton RA, Whiten A (1994) Reducing complex diets to simple rules: Food selection by olive baboons. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 35:283-293
2. Byrne RW, Whiten A, Henzi SP, McCulloch FM (1993) Nutritional constraints on mountain baboons (Papio ursinus): Implications for baboon socioecology. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 33:233-246
3. Chapman CA (1988) Patch use and patch depletion by the spider and howling monkeys of Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica. Behaviour 105:99-116
4. Charnov EL (1976) Optimal foraging, the marginal value theorem. Theor Popul Biol 9:129-136
5. Chivers DJ (1998) Measuring food intake in wild animals: Primates. Proc Nutr Soc 57:321-332
6. Clutton-Brock TH (ed) (1977) Primate ecology. Academic Press, London
7. Conklin-Brittain NL, Knott CD, Wrangham RW (2006) Energy intake by wild chimpanzees and orangutans: Methodological considerations and a preliminary comparison. In: Hohmann G, Robbins MM, Boesch C (eds) Feeding ecology in apes and other primates: Ecological, physical and behavioral aspects. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 445-471
8. Dasilva GL (1992) The western black-and-white colobus as a low-energy strategist: Activity budgets, energy expenditure and energy intake. J Anim Ecol 61:79-91
9. Davies AG, Bennett EL, Waterman PG (1988) Food selection by two south-east Asian colobine monkeys (Presbytis rubicunda and Presbytis melalophos) in relation to plant chemistry. Biol J Linn Soc 34:33-56
10. Fa JE (1986) Use of time and resources by provisioned troops of monkeys: social behaviour, time and energy in the Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus L.) at Gibraltar. Karger, Basel
11. Freeland WJ, Janzen DH (1974) Strategies in herbivory by mammals: The role of plant secondary compounds. Am Nat 108:269-289
12. Ganzhorn JU (2003) Habitat description and phenology. In: Curtis DJ, Setchell JM (eds) Field and laboratory methods in primatology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 40-56
13. Gaulin SJC, Gaulin CK (1982) Behavioral ecology of Alouatta seniculus in Andean cloud forest. Int J Primatol 3:1-32
14. Grether GF, Palombit RA, Rodman PS (1992) Gibbon foraging decisions and the marginal value model. Int J Primatol 13:1-18
15. Hanya G (2003) Age differences in food intake and dietary selection of wild male Japanese macaques. Primates 44:333-339
16. Hanya G, Kiyono M, Takafumi H, Tsujino R, Agetsuma N (2007) Mature leaf selection of Japanese macaques: Effects of availability and chemical content. J Zool 273:140-147
17. Hladik CM (1977a) A comparative study of the feeding strategies of two sympatric species of leaf monkeys: Presbytis senex and Presbytis entellus. In: Clutton-Brock TH (ed) Primate ecology. Academic Press, London, pp 324-353
18. Hladik CM (1977b) Chimpanzees of Gabon and chimpanzees of Gombe: Some comparative data on the diet. In: Clutton-Brock TH (ed) Primate ecology. Academic Press, London, pp 481-501
19. Imanishi K (1960) Gorilla. Bungeishunju-Shinsha, Tokyo (in Japanese)
20. Iwamoto T (1974) A bioeconomic study on a provisioned troop of Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata fuscata) at Koshima Islet, Miyazaki. Primates 15:241-262
21. Iwamoto T (1979) Feeding ecology. In: Kawai M et al (eds) Ecological and sociological studies of Gelada baboons. Karger, Basel, pp 279-310
22. Iwamoto T (1982) Food and nutritional condition of free ranging Japanese monkeys on Koshima Islet during winter. Primates 23:153-170
23. Janson CH (1985) Aggressive competition and individual food consumption in wild brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Behav Ecol Sociobiol 18:125-138
24. Janson CH (1988) Food competition in brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella): Quantitative effects of group size and tree productivity. Behaviour 105:53-76
25. Janson CH, Chapman CA (1999) Resources and primate community structure. In: Fleagle JG, Janson CH, Reed KE (eds) Primate community. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 237-267
26. Janson CH, Vogel E (2006) Hunger and aggression in capuchin monkeys. In: Hohmann G, Robbins MM, Boesch C (eds) Feeding ecology in apes and other primates: Ecological, physiological and behavioral aspects. Cambridge University Press, New York, pp 285-312
27. Kazahari N, Agetsuma N (2008) Social factors enhancing foraging success of a wild group of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) in a patchy food environment. Behaviour 145:843-860
28. Knott CD (1998) Changes in orangutan caloric intake, energy balance, and ketones in response to fluctuating fruit availability. Int J Primatol 19:1061-1079
29. Koenig A, Borries C, Chalise MK, Winker P (1997) Ecology, nutrition, and timing of reproductive events in an Asian primate, the Hanuman langur (Presbytis entellus). J Zool 234:215-235
30. Kurland JA, Gaulin SJC (1987) Comparability among measures of primate diets. Primates 28:71-77
31. Lambert JE (2007) Primate nutritional ecology: Feeding biology and diet at ecological and evolutionary scales. In: Campbell CH, Fuentes A, Mackinnon KC, Panger M, Bearder SK (eds) Primates in perspective. Oxford University Press, New York, pp 482-495
32. Leighton M (1993) Modeling dietary selectivity by Bornean Orangutans: evidence for integration of multiple criteria in fruit selection. Int J Primatol 14:257-313
33. Matsumoto-Oda A, Hayashi Y (1999) Nutritional aspects of fruit choice by chimpanzees. Folia Primatol 70:154-162
34. McCabe GM, Fedigan LM (2007) Effects of reproductive status on energy intake, ingestion rates, and dietary composition of female Cebus capucinus at Santa Rosa, Costa Rica. Int J Primatol 28:837-851
35. Milton K (1979) Factors influencing leaf choice by howler monkeys: A test of some hypotheses of food selection by generalist herbivores. Am Nat 114:362-377
36. Mori A (1995) Rank and age related feeding strategy observed through field experiments in the Koshima group of Japanese macaques. Primates 36:11-26
37. Nakagawa N (1989a) Feeding strategies of Japanese monkeys against deterioration of habitat quality. Primates 30:1-16
38. Nakagawa N (1989b) Bioenergetics of Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata) on Kinkazan Island during winter. Primates 30:441-460
39. Nakagawa N (1990a) Choice of food patches by Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata). Am J Primatol 21:17-29
40. Nakagawa N (1990b) Decisions on time allocation to different food patches by Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata). Primates 31:459-469
41. Nakagawa N (1996) Reconsideration of optimal food selection in non-human primates. Jpn J Ecol 46:291-307 (in Japanese with english summary)
42. Nakagawa N (1997a) Quantified food lists of the Japanese monkeys in Kinkazan Island. Primate Res 13:73-89 (in Japanese with english abstract)
43. Nakagawa N (1997b) Determinants of the dramatic seasonal changes in the intake of energy and protein by Japanese monkeys in a cool temperate forest. Am J Primatol 41:267-288
44. Nakagawa N (2000a) Seasonal, sex, and interspecific differences in activity time budgets and diets of patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) and tantalus monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops tantalus), living sympatrically in northern Cameroon. Primates 41:161-174
45. Nakagawa N (2000b) Foraging energetics in patas monkeys (Etythrocebus patas) and Tantalus monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops tantalus): implications for reproductive seasonality. Am J Primatol 52:169-185
46. Nakagawa N (2003) Difference in food selection between patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) and Tantalus monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops tantalus) in Kala Maloue National Park, Cameroon, in relation to nutrient content. Primates 44:3-11
47. Nakagawa N (2008) The scaling of feeding rate in wild primates: A preliminary analysis. Mammal Study 33:157-162
48. Nakagawa N, Iwamoto T, Yokota N, Soumah AG (1996) Inter-regional and inter-seasonal variations of food quality in Japanese macaques: With reference to the constraints of digestive volume and feeding time. In: Fa JE, Lindburg DG (eds) Evolution and ecology of macaque societies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 207-234
49. Nakayama Y, Matsuoka S, Watanuki Y (1999) Feeding rates and energy deficits of juvenile and adult Japanese monkeys in a cool temperate area with snow coverage. Ecol Res 14:291-301
50. Oates JF, Waterman PG, Choo GM (1980) Food selection by the South Indian leaf-monkey, Presbytis johnii, in relation to leaf chemistry. Oecologia 45:45-56
51. Perry G, Pianka ER (1997) Animal foraging: Past, present and future. Trends Evol Ecol 12:360-364
52. Post DG, Hausfater G, McCuskey SA (1980) Feeding behavior of yellow baboons (Papio cynocephalus): Relationship to age, gender and dominance rank. Folia Primatol 34:170-195
53. Pulliam HR (1974) On the theory of optimal diets. Am Nat 108:59-74
54. Pulliam HR (1975) Diet optimization with nutrient constraints. Am Nat 109:765-768
55. Pyke GH, Pulliam HR, Charnov EL (1977) Optimal foraging: A selective review of theory and tests. Q Rev Biol 52:137-154
56. Reynolds V, Plumptre A, Greenham HJ (1998) Condensed tannins and sugars in the diet of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the Budongo forest, Uganda. Oecologia 115:331-336
57. Robbins MM, Hohmann G (2006) Primate feeding ecology: An integrative approach. In: Hohmann G, Robbins MM, Boesch C (eds) Feeding ecology in apes and other primates: Ecological, physiological and behavioral aspects. Cambridge University Press, New York, pp 1-13
58. Rogers ME, Maisels F, Williamson EA, Fernandez M, Tutin CEG (1990) Gorilla diet in the Lope Reserve, Gabon: A nutritional analysis. Oecologia 84:326-339
59. Saito C (1996) Dominance and feeding success in female Japanese macaques, Macaca fuscata: Effects of food patch size and inter-patch distance. Anim Behav 51:967-980
60. Schoener TW (1971) Theory of feeding strategy. Ann Rev Ecol Sys 2:369-404
61. Schülke O, Chalise MK, Koenig A (2006) The importance of ingestion rates for estimating food quality and energy intake. Am J Primatol 68:951-965
62. Shipley LA, Gross JE, Spalinger DE, Hobbs NT, Wunder BA (1994) The scaling of intake rate in mammalian herbivores. Am Nat 143:1055-1082
63. Shopland JM (1987) Food quality, spatial deployment, and the intensity of feeding interference in yellow baboons (Papio cynocephalus). Behav Ecol Sociobiol 21:149-156
64. Sih A, Christensen B (2001) Optimal diet theory: When does it work, and when and why does it fail. Anim Behav 61:379-390
65. Snaith TV, Chapman CA (2005) Towards an ecological solution the folivore paradox: Patch depletion as an indicator of within-group scramble competition in red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus tephrosceles). Behav Ecol Sociobiol 59:185-190
66. Soumah AG, Yokota N (1991) Female rank and feeding strategies in a free-ranging provisioned troop of Japanese macaques. Folia primatol 57:191-200
67. Stacey PB (1986) Group size and foraging efficiency in yellow baboons. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 18:175-187
68. Stammati M, Sabbatini G, Visalberghi E (2008) An experimental analysis of ingestion rates in an omnivorous species. Am J Primatol 70:1-4
69. Stephens DW, Krebs JR (1986) Foraging theory. Princeton University Press, Princeton
70. Sterling EJ, Dierenfeld ES, Ashbourne CJ, Feistner ATC (1994) Dietary intake, food composition and nutrient intake in wild and captive populations of Daubentonia madagascariensis. Folia Primatol 62:115-124
71. Takemoto H (2003) Phytochemical determination for leaf food choice by wild chimpanzees in Guinea, Bossou. J Chem Ecol 29:2551-2573
72. Tsuji Y, Kazahari N, Kitahara M, Takatsuki S (2008) A more detailed seasonal division of the energy balance and the protein balance of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) on Kinkazan Island, northern Japan. Primates 49:157-160
73. Urquiza-Haas T, Serio-Silva JC, Hernández-Salazar LT (2008) Traditional nutritional analyses of figs overestimates intake of most nutrient fractions: A study of Ficus perforata consumed by howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata mexicana). Am J Primatol 70:432-438
74. van Schaik CP, van Noordwijk MA (1988) Scramble and contest in feeding competition among female long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis). Behaviour 105:77-98
75. Vogel ER (2005) Rank differences in energy intake rates in white-faced capuchin monkeys, Cebus capucinus: The effects of contest competition. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 58:333-344
76. Wasserman MD, Chapman CA (2003) Determinants of colobine monkey abundance: The importance of food energy, protein and fibre content. J Anim Ecol 72:650-659
77. Westoby M (1974) An analysis of diet selection by large generalist herbivores. Am Nat 108:290-304
78. Whitten PL (1988) Effects of patch quality and feeding subgroup size on feeding success in vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops). Behaviour 105:35-52
79. Wrangham RW, Conklin NL, Etot G, Obua J, Hunt KD, Hauser MD, Clark AP (1993) The value of figs to chimpanzees. Int J Primatol 14:243-256
80. Zinner D (1999) Relationship between feeding time and food intake in hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas) and the value of feeding time as predictor of food intake. Zool Biol 18:495-505