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Factors Affecting Leaf Selection by Foregut-fermenting Proboscis Monkeys: New Insight from in vitro Digestibility and Toughness of Leaves

Free-living animals must make dietary choices in terms of chemical and physical properties, depending on their digestive physiology and availability of food resources. Here we comprehensively evaluated the dietary choices of proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) consuming young leaves. We analysed th...

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Autores principales: Matsuda, Ikki, Clauss, Marcus, Tuuga, Augustine, Sugau, John, Hanya, Goro, Yumoto, Takakazu, Bernard, Henry, Hummel, Jürgen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5314408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28211530
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep42774