What's burning got to do with it? Primate foraging opportunities in fire-modified landscapes

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 432-441

  Herzog, Nicole M ^a,b,c   Keefe, Earl R ^a   Parker, Christopher H ^a   Hawkes, Kristen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

behavioral ecology; feeding ecology; optimal foraging models; vervets

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLOROCEBUS; CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS PYGERYTHRUS; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; FEMALE; FIRE ECOLOGY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRASS; HABITAT USE; HOME RANGE; INFANT; INVERTEBRATE; JUVENILE ANIMAL; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SAVANNA; SOUTH AFRICA; SUBADULT; ANIMAL; CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FIRE; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FIRES; FOOD HABITS; MALE; PLANTS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84958945938     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22885     Document Type: Article

References (89)

1. Aganga AA, Tsopito CM, Yeboah SO, Mokgoko C, Manne SN., 1997. Evaluation of the chemical composition of some locally available Acacia seeds as animal feed in Botswana. Proceedings of the XVIII International Grassland Conference. Winnepeg, Manitoba. Vol. 2. p 23-27.
2. Altmann J., 1974. Observational study of behavior: sampling methods. Behavior 49: 227-267.
3. Altmann SA., 1998. Foraging for survival: yearling baboons in Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
4. Andersen AN,. 1988. Immediate and longer-term effects of fire on seed predation by ants in sclerophyllous vegetation in south-eastern Australia. Aust J Ecol 13: 285-293.
5. Armelagos G., 2010. Creatures of the flame: light and heat in human evolution. Evol Anthropol 19: 158-160.
6. Archibald S, Bond WJ., 2004. Grazer movements: spatial and temporal responses to burning in a tall-grass African savanna. Int J Wildland Fire 13: 377-385.
7. Baritell KV, van Schaik CP, Vogel E., 2009. Foraging efficiency in wild orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) at the Tuanan field station in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Am J Phys Anthropol 138S: 82-83.
8. Barrett AS., 2009. Spatial and temporal patterns in resource dispersion and the structure of range use and co-existence in a social omnivore (Chlorocebus aethiops) [Ph.D. dissertation]. Pretoria: University of South Africa.
9. Bennett NC, Jarvis JUM., 1995. Coefficients of digestibility and nutritional values of geophytes and tubers eaten by southern African mole-rats (Rodentia: Bathyergidae). J Zool 236: 189-198.
10. Berenstain L., 1986. Responses of long-tailed macaques to drought and fire in Eastern Borneo: a preliminary report. Biotropica 18: 257-262.
11. Bird DW, Bliege Bird R, Parker CH., 2005. Aboriginal burning regimes and hunting strategies in Australia's Western desert. Hum Ecol 33: 443-464.
12. Bird DW, O'Connell JF., 2006. Behavioral ecology and archaeology. J Archaeol Res 14: 143-188.
13. Blaine KP, Lambert JE., 2012. Digestive retention times for Allen's swamp monkey and L'Hoest's monkey: data with implications for the evolution of cercopithecine digestive strategy. Integr Zool 7: 183-191.
14. Bliege Bird R, Bird DW, Codding BF, Parker CH, Jones JH., 2008. The "fire stick farming" hypothesis: Australian aboriginal foraging strategies, biodiversity, in anthropogenic fire mosaics. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105: 14796-14801.
15. Boback SM, Cox CL, Ott BD, Carmody R, Wrangham RW, Secor SM., 2007. Cooking and grinding reduces the cost of meat digestion. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 148: 651-656.
16. Bouwman H, Hoffman R., 2007. The effects of fire on grassland bird communities of Barberspan, North West Province, South Africa. Ostrich 78: 591-608.
17. Bowman D, Garde M, Saulwick A., 2001. Kunj-ken makka man-wurrk-fire is for kangaroos: interpreting Aboriginal accounts of landscape burning in Central Arnhem Land. In:, Anderson A, O'Connor S, editors. Central Arnhem Land, histories of old ages. Essays in honour of Rhys Jones. Canberra: Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. p 61-78.
18. Burton FD., 2009. Fire-the spark that ignited human evolution. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
19. Cameron AC, Trivedi PK., 2013. Regression analysis of count data. Cambridge University Press.
20. Carmody RN, Weintraub GS, Wrangham RW., 2011. Energetic consequences of thermal and nonthermal food processing. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108: 19199-19203.
21. Carmody RN, Wrangham RW., 2009. The energetic significance of cooking. J Hum Evol 57: 379-391.
22. Charnov EL., 1976a. Optimal foraging: attack strategy of a mantid. Am Nat 110: 141-151.
23. Charnov EL, Orians GH., 1973. Optimal foraging: some theoretical explorations. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
24. Clemente A, Sánchez-Vioque R, Vioque J, Bautista J, Millán F., 1998. Effect of cooking on protein quality of chickpea (Cicer arietinum) seeds. Food Chem 62: 1-6.
25. Codding BF, Bird DW., 2015. Behavioral ecology and the future of archaeological science. J Archaeol Sci 56: 9-20.
26. Codding BF, Bird RB, Kauhanen PG, Bird DW., 2014. Conservation or co-evolution? Intermediate levels of Aboriginal burning and hunting have positive effects on kangaroo populations in Western Australia. Hum Ecol 42: 1-11.
27. Conklin-Brittain NL, Knott CD, Wrangham RW., 2006. Energy intake by wild chimpanzees and orangutans: methodological considerations and a preliminary comparison. In: Feeding ecology in apes and other primates. New York: Cambridge Press. p 445-471.
28. Conklin-Brittain NL, Wrangham RW, Hunt KD., 1998. Dietary response of chimpanzees and cercopithecines to seasonal variation in fruit abundance. II. Macronutrients. Int J Primatol 19: 971-998.
29. Crane EE., 2013. The world history of bee keeping and honey hunting. New York, NY: Routledge.
30. Davies NB, Krebs JR, West SA., 2012. An introduction to behavioural ecology. Oxford, UK: Wiley.
31. De Ronde C, Trollope WSW, Parr CL, Brockett B, Geldenhuys CJ., 2004. Fire effects of flora and fauna. In: Wildland fire management handbook for Sub-Sahara Africa. Global Fire Monitoring Center. p 60-87, Germany: Freiburg University.
32. Dominy NJ, Vogel ER, Yeakel JD, Constantino P, Lucas PW., 2008. Mechanical properties of plant underground storage organs and implications for dietary models of early hominins. Evol Biol 35: 159-175.
33. Eby S, Mosser A, Swanson A, Packer C, Ritchie M., 2013. The impact of burning on lion Panthera leo habitat choice in an African savanna. Curr Zool 59: 335-339.
34. Ee KY, Agboola S, Rehman A, Zhao J., 2011. Characterisation of phenolic components present in raw and roasted wattle (Acacia victoriae Bentham) seeds. Food Chem 129: 816-821.
35. Eksteen JJ., 2003. Condensed management plan for Loskop Dam Nature Reserve. Nelspruit, SA: Mpumalanga Parks Board.
36. Emlen J., 1966. The role of time and energy in food preference. World Arch 34: 103-130.
37. Filmalter N., 2010. A vegetation classification and management plan for the Hondekraal section of the Loskopdam Nature Reserve. Pretoria: University of South Africa.
38. Fisher WS., 1948. Burning the bush for game. Afr Stud 7: 36-38.
39. Gowlett JAJ., 2010. Firing up the social brain. In:, Dunbar RIM, Gamble C, Gowlett JAJ, editors. Social brain, distributed mind. London: British Academy. p 345-370.
40. Green DS, Roloff GJ, Heath BR, Holekamp KE., 2014. Temporal dynamics of the responses by African mammals to prescribed fire. J Wildlife Manage 79: 235-242.
41. Grether GF, Palombit RA, Rodman PS., 1992. Gibbon foraging decisions and the marginal value model. Int J Primatol 13: 1-17.
42. Griffith CS, Long BL, Sept JM., 2010. HOMINIDS: An agent-based spatial simulation model to evaluate behavioral patterns of early Pleistocene hominids. Ecol Model 221: 738-760.
43. Groopman EE, Carmody RN, Wrangham RW., 2014. Cooking increases net energy gain from a lipid-rich food. Am J Phys Anthropol 156: 11-18.
44. Hall M., 1984. Man's historical and traditional use of fire in southern Africa. In:, Booysen PV de, Tainton NM, editors. Ecological effects of fire in South African ecosystems (ecological studies). Heidelberg: Springer Berlin. p 39-52.
45. Harrison MJ., 1983. Patterns of range use by the green monkey, Cercopithecus sabaeus, at Mt. Assirik, Senegal. Folia Primatol (Basel) 41: 157-179.
46. Harrison MJ., 1984. Optimal foraging strategies in the diet of the green monkey, Cercopithecus sabaeus, at Mt. Assirik, Senegal. Int J Primatol 5: 435-471.
47. Hawkes K, O'Connell JF., 1992. On optimal foraging models and subsistence transitions. Curr Anthropol 33: 63-65.
48. Herzog NM, Parker CH, Keefe ER, Coxworth J, Barrett A, Hawkes K., 2014. Fire and home range expansion: a behavioral response to burning among savanna dwelling vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops). Am J Phys Anthropol 154: 554-560.
49. Isbell LA, Rothman JM, Young PJ, Rudolph K., 2013. Nutritional benefits of Crematogaster mimosae ants and Acacia drepanolobium gum for patas monkeys and vervets in Laikipia, Kenya. Am J Phys Anthropol 150: 286-300.
50. Jaffe K, Isbell LA., 2009. After the fire: benefits of reduced ground cover for vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops). Am J Primatol 71: 252-260.
51. Kataria A, Chauhan BM, Punia D., 1989. Antinutrients and protein digestibility (in vitro) of mungbean as affected by domestic processing and cooking. Food Chem 32: 9-17.
52. Kelly RL., 2013. The lifeways of hunter-gatherers: the foraging spectrum. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
53. Kurland JA, Beckerman SJ., 1985. Optimal foraging and hominid evolution: labor and reciprocity. Am Anthropol 87: 73-93.
54. Lambert JE., 1998. Primate digestion: interactions among anatomy, physiology, and feeding ecology. Evol Anthropol 7: 8-20.
55. Lewis HT, Ferguson TA., 1988. Yards, corridors, and mosaics: how to burn a boreal forest. Hum Ecol 16: 57-77.
56. MacArthur RH, Pianka ER., 1966. On optimal use of a patchy environment. Am Nat 100: 603-609.
57. Milton K., 1984. The role of food-processing factors in primate food choice. In:, Rodman PS, Cant J, editors. Adaptations for foraging in nonhuman primates. New York: Columbia University Press. p 249-279.
58. Moya-Raygoza G, Larsen KJ., 2014. Response of ants to the leafhopper Dalbulus quinquenotatus DeLong & Nault (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) and extrafloral nectaries following fire. Sociobiology 61: 136-144.
59. Nakagawa N., 1989. Foraging behavior of Japanese monkeys: a viewpoint of optimal foraging strategy. Primate Res 5: 1-13.
60. Nakagawa N., 1990. Choice of food patches by Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata). Am J Primatol 21: 17-29.
61. Nakagawa N., 2003. Difference in food selection between patas monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) and tantalus monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops tantalus) in Kala Maloue National Park, Cameroon, in relation to nutrient content. Primates 44: 3-11.
62. O'Brien T, Kinnaird M, Nurcahyo A, Prasetyaningrum M, Iqbal M., 2003. Fire, demography and the persistence of siamang (Symphalangus syndactylus: Hylobatidae) in a Sumatran rainforest. Animal conserv 6: 115-121.
63. O'Connell JF., 1995. Ethnoarchaeology needs a general theory of behavior. J Archaeol Res 3: 205-255.
64. O'Connell JF., 2006. How did modern humans displace Neanderthals? Insights from hunter-gatherer ethnography and archaeology. In:, Conrad N, editor. Neanderthals and modern humans meet ? Tubingen: Kerns Verlag. p 43-64.
65. O'Connell JF, Allen J., 2012. The restaurant at the end of the Universe: modelling the colonisation of Sahul. Aust Archaeol 74: 5-16.
66. O'Connell JF, Hawkes K, Blurton Jones NG., 1999. Grandmothering and the evolution of Homo erectus. J Hum Evol 36: 461-485.
67. O'Connell JF, Hawkes K, Lupo KD, Blurton Jones NG., 2002. Male strategies and Plio-Pleistocene archaeology. J Hum Evol 43: 831-872.
68. O'Malley RC, Power ML., 2012. Nutritional composition of actual and potential insect prey for the Kasekela chimpanzees of Gombe National Park, Tanzania. Am J Phys Anthropol 149: 493-503.
69. Parker CH., 2014. On the evolution of human fire use [Ph.D. dissertation]. Salt Lake City: University of Utah.
70. Parr CL, Chown S., 2003. Burning issues for conservation: a critique of faunal fire research in Southern Africa. Aust Ecol 28: 384-395.
71. Pruetz JD, LaDuke T., 2010. Brief communication: reaction to fire by savanna chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) at Fongoli, Senegal: conceptualization of fire behavior'' and the case for a chimpanzee model. Am J Primatol 141: 646-650.
72. Pyke GH, Pulliam HR, Charnov EL., 1977. Optimal foraging: a selective review of theory and tests. Q Rev Biol 52: 137-154.
73. R Core Team. 2012. R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing: Vienna, Austria.
74. Rothman JM, Raubenheimer D, Bryer MAH, Takahashi M, Gilbert CC., 2014. Nutritional contributions of insects to primate diets: implications for primate evolution. J Hum Evol 71: 59-69.
75. Sayers K, Lovejoy CO., 2014. Blood, bulbs, and Bunodonts: on evolutionary ecology and the diets of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and early Homo. Q Rev Biol 89: 319-357.
76. Sayers K, Norconk MA, Conklin-Brittain NL., 2010. Optimal foraging on the roof of the world: Himalayan langurs and the classical prey model. Am J Phys Anthropol 141: 337-357.
77. Schoener TW., 1974. The compression hypothesis and temporal resource partitioning. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 71: 4169-4172.
78. Schoener TW., 1987. A brief history of optimal foraging ecology. In:, Kamil AC, Krebs JR, Pulliam HR, editors. Foraging behavior. New York, NY: Plenum Press. p 5-67.
79. Sensenig RL, Demment M, Laca EA., 2010. Allometric scaling predicts preferences for burned patches in a guild of East African grazers. Ecology 91: 2298-2907.
80. Stephens DW., 2008. Decision ecology: foraging and the ecology of animal decision making. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 8: 475-484.
81. Stephens DW, Krebs JR., 1986. Foraging theory. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
82. Swengel AB., 2001. A literature review of insect responses to fire, compared to other conservation managements of open habitat. Biodivers Conserv 10: 1141-1169.
83. Van de Vijver C, Poot P, Prins HHT., 1999. Causes of increased nutrient concentrations in post-fire regrowth in an East African savanna. Plant Soil 214: 173-185.
84. Wandsnider L., 1997. The roasted and the boiled: food composition and heat treatment with special emphasis on pit-hearth cooking. J Anthropol Archaeol 16: 1-48.
85. Wehmeyer AS., 1986. Edible wild plants of southern Africa: data on the nutrient contents of over 300 species. CSIR: National Food Research Institute.
86. Wrangham R., 2009. Catching fire: how cooking made us human. New York: Basic Books.
87. Zamora R, Alaiz M, Hidalgo FJ., 2001. Influence of cultivar and fruit ripening on olive (Olea europaea) fruit protein content, composition, and antioxidant activity. J Agric Food Chem 49: 4267-4270.
88. Zink KD, Lieberman DE, Lucas PW., 2014. Food material properties and early hominin processing techniques. J Hum Evol 77: 155-166.
89. Zuur A, Ieno EN, Walker N, Saveliev AA, Smith GM., 2009. Mixed effects models and extensions in ecology with R. New York, NY: Springer Science & Business Media.