Ant eating behavior of mountain gorillas
dc.contributor.author | Watts, David P. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-08T19:26:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-08T19:26:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1989-01 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Watts, David P.; (1989). "Ant eating behavior of mountain gorillas." Primates 30(1): 121-125. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/41604> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1610-7365 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0032-8332 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/41604 | |
dc.description.abstract | Eleven cases of feeding on driver ants ( Dorylus sp.) by mountain gorillas ( Gorilla gorilla beringei ) are described. Ant eating provides the gorillas with more animal protein and other nutrients per unit feeding time than do other forms of insectivory that contribute to their diet, but it is so rare that it is unlikely to be of real nutritional significance. Gorillas obtain ants with their hands and do not use tools. Immature individuals (except infants) ate more ants than did adult females, and silverbacks were not seen to eat ants. These differences are more likely to reflect differences in individual taste and interest in novelty than differences in nutritional strategy. Not all gorillas in the Virungas population eat ants. Intra-population variability may be ecologically contingent, but ant eating appears to be a socially acquired and transmitted taste. | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Springer-Verlag; Japan Monkey Centre | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Zoology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Life Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Acquired Taste | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Animal Ecology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Behavioural Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Ant Eating | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Gorillas | en_US |
dc.title | Ant eating behavior of mountain gorillas | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Anthropology, The University of Michigan, 48109, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/41604/1/10329_2006_Article_BF02381219.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02381219 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Primates | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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