Physical properties of fruit and seeds ingested by primate seed predators with emphasis on sakis and bearded sakis

Anatomical Record

Volumn 294, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2092-2111

  Norconk, Marilyn A ^a   Veres, Michael ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Feeding morphology; Food hardness; Liem's paradox; Platyrrhines

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATELES PANISCUS; BABOON; CERCOCEBUS; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CHIMPANZEE; CHIROPOTES; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DENTITION; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; ENAMEL; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; HARDNESS; LOPHOCEBUS; MALE; MASTICATION; MOLAR TOOTH; NONHUMAN; PITHECIA PITHECIA; PITHECIIDAE; PLANT SEED; PLATYRRHINI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSIMIAN; SEED PREDATION; TOOTH FRACTURE;

ANIMALS; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; PITHECIIDAE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEEDS;

ATELES PANISCUS; CERCOCEBUS; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CHIROPOTES; LOPHOCEBUS; PAN; PAPIO; PITHECIA PITHECIA; PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 81255207550     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.21506     Document Type: Article

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