Male and female western gorilla diet: Preferred foods, use of fallback resources, and implications for ape versus old world monkey foraging strategies

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 727-738

  Doran Sheehy, D ^a   Mongo, P ^a   Lodwick, J ^a   Conklin Brittain, N L ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gorilla gorilla; Nutritional ecology; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

APE; BODY SIZE; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CHIMPANZEE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIET; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FRUITING; GORILLA; HERB; ISOPTERA; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; PLANT LEAF; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BODY SIZE; CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CONGO; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; FRUIT; GORILLA GORILLA; MALE; OBSERVATION; PLANT LEAVES; SEX FACTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CERCOCEBUS; CERCOPITHECIDAE; GORILLA GORILLA; ISOPTERA; PAN; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 70449102894     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21118     Document Type: Conference Paper

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