Fallback foraging as a way of life: Using dietary toughness to compare the fallback signal among capuchins and implications for interpreting morphological variation

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 687-699

  Wright, Barth W ^a   Wright, Kristin A ^a   Chalk, Janine ^b   Verderane, Michele P ^c   Fragaszy, Dorothy ^d   Visalberghi, Elisabetta ^e   Izar, Patricia ^c   Ottoni, Eduardo B ^c   Constantino, Paul ^b   Vinyard, Christopher ^f  

^a KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND BIOSCIENCES   (United States)

^b THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^f NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cebus; Dietary toughness; Fallback foods; Skeletal morphology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CEBIDAE; CEBIDAE APELLA; CEBIDAE LIBIDINOSUS; CEBIDAE OLIVACEUS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PROCESSING; FORAGING; HABITAT; JAW; MALE; MANDIBLE; MASTICATION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; SKELETON; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOMETRY; CEBUS; DIET; EXTREMITIES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD HABITS; GUYANA; HEAD; MECHANICAL PHENOMENA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CEBIDAE; CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA; CEBUS LIBIDINOSUS; CEBUS OLIVACEUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 70449109375     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21116     Document Type: Conference Paper

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