Plant foods consumed by Pan: Exploring the variation of nutritional ecology across Africa

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 476-485

  Hohmann, Gottfried ^a   Potts, Kevin ^b   N'Guessan, Antoine ^a,c   Fowler, Andrew ^a,d   Mundry, Roger ^a   Ganzhorn, Joerg U ^e   Ortmann, Sylvia ^f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ FÉLIX HOUPHOUËT BOIGNY   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^f LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bonobo; Chimpanzee; Diet quality; Frugivory; Geographic variation

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; PROTEIN;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; DIET; ENERGY; FIBER; FOOD INTAKE; FOREST; FRUIT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT QUALITY; MACRONUTRIENT; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLANT; PLANT ECOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; POPULATION; SPECIES;

AFRICA; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD SUPPLY; FRUIT; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, EDIBLE;

PAN; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES;

EID: 76149089521     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21168     Document Type: Article

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