Hard-object feeding in sooty mangabeys (cercocebus atys) and interpretation of early hominin feeding ecology

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Daegling, David J ^a   McGraw, W Scott ^b   Ungar, Peter S ^c   Pampush, James D ^a   Vick, Anna E ^d   Bitty, E Anderson ^e  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^d Santa Fe College   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CERCOCEBUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; DENTAL MICROWEAR; DENTIN; DUROPHAGY; ENAMEL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FEMALE; FOOD TEXTURE; FUNCTIONS OF THE MOUTH, JAWS AND TEETH; HARD OBJECT FEEDING; MALE; MASTICATION; NONHUMAN; PREMOLAR TOOTH; TOOTH SIZE; ANIMAL; COTE D'IVOIRE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; FACE; HISTOLOGY; HOMINID; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MECHANICAL STRESS; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; SURFACE PROPERTY; TREE;

ATYS; AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFRICANUS; CERCOCEBUS TORQUATUS ATYS; PARANTHROPUS ROBUSTUS; SACOGLOTTIS GABONENSIS; SIMIIFORMES;

ANIMALS; BICUSPID; CERCOCEBUS ATYS; COTE D'IVOIRE; DENTAL ENAMEL; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHENOMENA; FACE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOMINIDAE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; SEEDS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TREES;

EID: 80052060732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023095     Document Type: Article

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