30 Days in the Life: Daily Nutrient Balancing in a Wild Chacma Baboon

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Johnson, Caley A ^a,b   Raubenheimer, David ^e   Rothman, Jessica M ^a,b,c   Clarke, David ^c   Swedell, Larissa ^a,b,c,d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW YORK CONSORTIUM IN EVOLUTIONARY PRIMATOLOGY   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; FAT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MACRONUTRIENT; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONTENT; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN INTAKE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84880801143     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070383     Document Type: Article

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