Maximum ingested food size in captive strepsirrhine primates: Scaling and the effects of diet

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 625-635

  Perry, Jonathan M G ^a   Hartstone Rose, Adam ^b  

^a MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Bite; Ingestion; Lemur; Mastication

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CARROT; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLIVORE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD SIZE; FRUGIVORE; MALE; MANDIBLE; MASTICATION; MELON; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; SWEET POTATO; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY WEIGHT; FRUIT; METABOLISM; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSIMIAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETABLE;

CUCUMIS; DAUCUS CAROTA; IPOMOEA BATATAS; LEMUR; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY WEIGHT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRUIT; MALE; MANDIBLE; MASTICATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STREPSIRHINI; VEGETABLES;

EID: 77954507804     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21285     Document Type: Article

References (73)

1. Agrawal KR, Lucas PW, Bruce IC, Prinz JF. 1998. Food properties that influence neuromuscular activity during human mastication. J Dent Res 77:1931-1938.
2. Agrawal KR, Lucas PW, Prinz JF, Bruce IC. 1997. Mechanical properties of foods responsible for resisting food breakdown in the human mouth. Arch Oral Biol 42:1-9.
3. Anapol F, Shahnoor N, Ross CF. 2008. Scaling of reduced physiologic cross-sectional area in primate muscles of mastication. In: Vinyard CJ, Ravosa MJ, Wall CE, editors. Primate craniofacial function and biology. New York: Springer US. p 201-216.
4. Andrews JR, Birkinshaw CR. 1998. A comparison between the daytime and nighttime diet, activity and feeding height of the Black Lemur, Eulemur macaco (Primates: Lemuridae), in Lokobe Forest, Madagascar. Folia Primatol 69 (Suppl 1): 175-182.
5. Bearder SK. 1987. Lorises, bushbabies, and tarsiers: diverse societies in solitary foragers. In: Smuts BB, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM, Wrangham RW, Struhsaker TT, editors. Primate societies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p 11-24.
6. Bouvier M. 1986. Biomechanical scaling of mandibular dimensions in New World Monkeys. Int J Primatol 7:551-567.
7. Buettner-Janusch J, Andrew RJ. 1962. The use of the incisors by Primates in grooming. Am J Phys Anthropol 20:127-129.
8. Chivers DJ. 1998. Measuring food intake in wild animals: primates. Proc Nutr Soc 57:321-332.
9. Clutton-Brock TH, Harvey PH. 1977. Species differences in feeding and ranging behaviour in primates. In: Clutton-Brock TH, editor. Primate ecology. London: Academic Press. p 557-584.
10. Darvell BW, Lee PKD, Yuen TDB, Lucas PW. 1996. A portable fracture toughness tester for biological materials. Meas Sci Technol 7:954-962. (Pubitemid 126568392)
11. DelPero M, Pozzi L, Masters JC. 2006. A composite molecular phylogeny of living lemuroid primates. Folia Primatol 77:434-445.
12. Donati G, Bollen A, Borgognini-Tarli S, Ganzhorn J. 2007. Feeding over the 24-h cycle: dietary flexibility of cathemeral collared lemurs (Eulemur collaris). Behav Ecol Sociobiol 61:1237-1251.
13. Druzinsky RE. 1993. The time allometry of mammalian chewing movements: chewing frequency scales with body mass in mammals. J Theor Biol 160:427-440.
14. Felsenstein J. 1985. Phylogenies and the comparative method. Am Nat 125:1-15.
15. Fortelius M. 1985. Ungulate cheek teeth: developmental, functional and evolutionary interrelationships. Acta Zool Fenn 180:1-76.
16. Gerstner GE, Gerstein JB. 2008. Chewing rate allometry among mammals. J Mammal 89:1020-1030.
17. Gingerich PD, Smith BH, Rosenberg K. 1982. Allometric scaling in the dentition of primates and prediction of body weight from tooth size in fossils. Am J Phys Anthropol 58:81-100.
18. Grassi C. 2006. Variability in habitat, diet, and social structure of Hapalemur griseus in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. Am J Phys Anthropol 131:50-63.
19. Herring SW, Herring SE. 1974. The superficial masseter and gape in mammals. Am Nat 108:561-576.
20. Hiiemae KM. 1978. Mammalian mastication: a review of the activity of the jaw muscles and the movements they produce in chewing. In: Butler PM, Joysey KA, editors. Development, function and evolution of teeth. London: Academic Press. p 359-398.
21. Hiiemae KM, Crompton AW. 1971. A cinefluorographic study of feeding in the American opossum, Didelphis marsupialis. In: Dahlberg AA, editor. Dental morphology and evolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p 299-334.
22. Hladik CM. 1979. Diet and ecology of prosimians. In: Doyle GA, Martin RD, editors. The study of Prosimian behavior. New York: Academic Press. p 307-357.
23. Hladik CM, Charles-Dominique P, Petter JJ. 1980. Feeding strategies of five nocturnal prosimians in the dry forest of the west coast of Madagascar. In: Charles-Dominique P, Cooper HM, Hladik A, Hladik CM, Pages E, Pariente GF, Petter- Rousseaux A, Petter JJ, Schilling A, editors. Nocturnal Malagasy primates: ecology, physiology, and behavior. New York: Academic Press. p 41-73.
24. Hylander WL. 1979. The functional significance of primate mandibular form. J Morphol 160:223-240.
25. Hylander WL. 1985. Mandibular function and biomechanical stress and scaling. Am Zool 25:315-330.
26. Hylander WL. 2009. The functional significance of canine height reduction in early hominins. Am J Phys Anthropol 48S:154.
27. Kay RF. 1975a. Allometry and early hominids. Science 189:63.
28. Kay RF. 1975b. The functional adaptations of primate molar teeth. Am J Phys Anthropol 43:195-216.
29. Kay RF. 1984. On the use of anatomical features to infer foraging behavior in extinct primates. In: Rodman PS, Cant JGH, editors. Adaptations for foraging in nonhuman primates. New York: Columbia University Press. p 21-53.
30. Kay RF. 1985. Dental evidence for the diet of Australopithecus. Annu Rev Anthropol 43:195-216.
31. Kay RF, Covert HH. 1984. Anatomy and behaviour of extinct primates. In: Chivers DJ, Wood BA, Bilsborough A, editors. Food acquisition and processing in primates. New York: Plenum Press. p 467-508.
32. Kay RF, Hylander WL. 1978. The dental structure in mammalian folivores with special reference to Primates and Phalangeroidea (Marsupialia). In: Montgomery GG, editor. The ecology of arboreal folivores. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. p 173-192.
33. Lehman SM, Mayor M. 2004. Dietary patterns in Perrier's sifakas (Propithecus diadema perrieri): A preliminary study. Am J Primatol 62:115-122.
34. Lucas PW. 2004. Dental functional morphology: how teeth work. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 355 p.
35. Lucas PW, Beta T, Darvell BW, Dominy NJ, Essackjee HC, Lee PKD, Osorio D, Ramsden L, Yamashita N, Yuen TDB. 2001. Field kit to characterize physical, chemical and spatial aspects of potential primate foods. Folia Primatol 72:11-25.
36. Lucas PW, Luke DA. 1983. Method for analysing the breakdown of food in human mastication. Arch Oral Biol 28:813-819.
37. Martins EP, Diniz-Filho JAF, Housworth EA. 2002. Adaptive constraints and the phylogenetic comparative method: a computer simulation test. Evolution 56:1-13.
38. Martins EP, Hansen TF. 1997. Phylogenies and the comparative method: a general approach to incoporating phylogenetic information into the analysis of interspecific data. Am Nat 149:646-667. (Pubitemid 27393588)
39. Meyers DM. 1993. The effects of resource seasonality on behavior and reproduction in the golden-crowned Sifaka (Propithecus tattersalli Simons, 1988) in three Malagasy forests, Ph.D. dissertation. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University.
40. Mittermeier RA, Konstant WR, Hawkins F, Louis EE, Langrand O, Ratsimbazafy J, Rasoloarison R, Ganzhorn JU, Rajaobelina S, Tattersall I, Meyers DM, Nash SD. 2006. Lemurs of Madagascar. Washington, D.C.: Conservation International. 520 p.
41. O'NeillMC, Dobson SD. 2008. The degree and pattern of phylogenetic signal in primate long-bone structure. J Hum Evol 54:309-322.
42. Oftedal OT. 1991. The nutritional consequences of foraging in primates: the relationship of nutrient intakes to nutrient requirements. Phil Trans R Soc B 334:161-170.
43. Ossi K, Kamilar J. 2006. Environmental and phylogenetic correlates of Eulemur behavior and ecology (Primates: Lemuridae). Behav Ecol Sociobiol 61:53-64.
44. Overdorff D. 1993. Similarities, differences, and seasonal patterns in the diets of Eulemur rubriventer and Eulemur fulvus rufus in the Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. Int J Primatol 14:721-753.
45. Overdorff DJ. 1996. Ecological correlates to social structure in two lemur species in Madagascar. Am J Phys Anthropol 100:487-506.
46. Pastorini J, Forstner MRJ, Martin RD. 2001. Phylogenetic history of sifakas (Propithecus: Lemuriformes) derived from mtDNA sequences. Am J Primatol 53:1-17.
47. Perry JMG. 2008. The anatomy of mastication in extant strepsirrhines and Eocene adapines, Ph.D. dissertation. Durham: Duke University. 490 p.
48. Perry JMG, Hartstone-Rose A. 2007. Masticatory anatomy of strepsirrhines: selection for stretch or strength? Int Cong Vertebrate Morphol 8:95.
49. Perry JMG, Wall CE. 2008. Scaling of the chewing muscles in prosimians. In: Vinyard CJ, Ravosa MJ, Wall CE, editors. Primate craniofacial function and biology. New York: Springer US. p 217-240.
50. Ravosa MJ. 1999. Anthropoid origins and the modern symphysis. Folia Primatol 70:65-78.
51. Richard AF. 1978. Variability in the feeding behavior of a Malagasy prosimian, Propithecus verreauxi: Lemuriformes. In: Montgomery GG, editor. The ecology of arboreal folivores. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. p 519-533.
52. Roos C, Schmitz J, Zischler H. 2004. Primate jumping genes elucidate strepsirrhine phylogeny. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 101:10650-10654.
53. Ross CF, Reed DA, Washington RL, Eckhardt A, Anapol F, Shahnoor N. 2009a. Scaling of chew cycle duration in primates. Am J Phys Anthropol 138:30-44.
54. Ross CF, Washington RL, Eckhardt A, Reed DA, Vogel ER, Dominy NJ, Machanda ZP. 2009b. Ecological consequences of scaling of chew cycle duration and daily feeding time in Primates. J Hum Evol 56:570-585.
55. Sheine WS, Kay RF. 1977. An analysis of chewed food particle size and its relationship to molar structure in the primates Cheirogaleus medius and Galago senegalensis and the insectivoran Tupaia glis. Am J Phys Anthropol 47:15-20.
56. Shipley LA, Gross JE, Spalinger DE, Hobbs NT, Wunder BA. 1994. The scaling of intake rate in mammalian herbivores. Am Nat 143:1055-1082.
57. Snodgrass JJ, Leonard WR, Robertson ML. 2006. Primate bioenergetics: an evolutionary perspective. In: Ravosa MJ, Dagosto M, editors. Primate origins: adaptations and evolution. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. p 707-737.
58. Strait SG. 1997. Tooth use and the physical properties of food. Evol Anthropol 6:199-211.
59. Strait SG, Vincent JFV. 1998. Primate faunivores: physical properties of prey items. Int J Primatol 19:867-878.
60. Sussman RW. 1974. Ecological distinctions in sympatric species of lemur. In: Martin RD, Doyle GA, Walker AC, editors. Prosimian biology. London: Duckworth. p 75-108.
61. Sussman RW. 1999. Primate ecology and social structure: Volume 1: Lorises, Lemurs and Tarsiers. Needham Heights, MA: Pearson Custom Publishing. 284 p.
62. Tan CL, Drake JH. 2001. Evidence of tree gouging and exudate eating in pygmy slow lorises (Nycticebus pygmaeus). Folia Primatol 72:37-39.
63. Ungar PS. 1994. Patterns of ingestive behavior and anterior tooth use differences in sympatric anthropoid primates. Am J Phys Anthropol 95:197-219.
64. Vasey N. 2000. Niche separation in Varecia variegata rubra and Eulemur fulvus albifrons: I. Interspecific patterns. Am J Phys Anthropol 112:411-431.
65. Vinyard CJ. 1999. Temporomandibular joint morphology and function in Strepsirhine and Eocene primates, Ph.D. dissertation. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University.
66. Vinyard CJ, Hanna JB. 2005. Molar scaling in strepsirrhine primates. J Hum Evol 49:241-269.
67. Vinyard CJ, Wall CE, Williams SH, Hylander WL. 2003. Comparative functional analysis of skull morphology of tree-gouging primates. Am J Phys Anthropol 120:153-170.
68. Wiens F, Zitzmann A, Hussein NA. 2006. Fast food for slow lorises: is low metabolism related to secondary compounds in high-energy plant diet? J Mammal 87:790-798.
69. Williams SH, Wright BW, Truong VD, Daubert CR, Vinyard CJ. 2005. Mechanical properties of foods used in experimental studies of primate masticatory function. Am J Primatol 67:329-346.
70. Wrangham RW, Waterman PG. 1981. Feeding behaviour of vervet monkeys on Acacia tortilis and Acacia xanthophloea: with special reference to reproductive strategies and tannin production. J Anim Ecol 50:715-731.
71. Yamashita N. 2003. Food procurement and tooth use in two sympatric lemur species. Am J Phys Anthropol 121:125-133.
72. Yoder AD, Yang Z. 2004. Divergence dates for Malagasy lemurs estimated from multiple gene loci: geological and evolutionary context. Mol Ecol 13:757-773.
73. Zar JH. 1999. Biostatistical analysis. Delhi: Pearson Education. 663 p.