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The role of frugivory in the diversification of bats in the Neotropics
Journal of Biogeography, 2012AbstractAim Ecological interactions are among the most important biotic factors influencing the processes of speciation and extinction. Our aim was to test whether diversification rates of New World Noctilionoidea bats are associated with specialization for frugivory, and how this pattern differs between the mainland and the West Indies.Location The ...
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Evolutionary Origins of Human Alcoholism in Primate Frugivory
The Quarterly Review of Biology, 2000Evolutionary origins of alcohol consumption have rarely been considered in studies of ethanol addiction. However, the occurrence of ethanol in ripe and decaying fruit and the substantial heritability of alcoholism in humans suggest an important historical association between primate frugivory and alcohol consumption.
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Frugivory and Seed Dispersal by Kinkajous
2001The kinkajou, Potos flavus (Carnivora, Procyonidae), is one of the most abundant and most active seed dispersers among nocturnal arboreal frugivores in Neotropical forests (Walker and Cant 1977, Bonaccorso et al. 1980, Charles-Dominique et al.
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The relationship between frugivory and insectivory in primates
Primates, 1984Fruit and insects are two of the major components of primate diets. Previous investigators have often assumed that the consumption of fruit by primates was unassociated with the consumption of insects. We contend that much of what has been termed fruit-eating by primates involves a significant and deliberate ingestion of insects.
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Folivory, frugivory, and postcanine size in the cercopithecoidea revisited
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2011AbstractAt a given body mass, folivorous colobines have smaller postcanine teeth than frugivorous cercopithecines. This distinction is a notable exception to the general tendency for folivorous primates to have relatively larger postcanine tooth rows than closely related frugivores.
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Frugivorie bei mitteleuropäischen Vögeln [PDF]
, 2003 Im Rahmen einer Freilandstudie wurde der Mutualismus zwischen frugivoren Vögeln und ornithochoren Pflanzen untersucht, wobei sich die folgenden drei wesentlichen Ergebnisse zeigten: 1. Fruchtpräferenzen der Vögel ließen sich mit einem Modell erklären, in welchem Fett und Zucker als positive Faktoren bei der Fruchtwahl fungieren, sekundäre ...
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Frugivory and Seed Dispersal by Terrestrial Mammals
2001Fruit is a major food resource for vertebrates inhabiting Neotropical rainforests (Terborgh 1986, Dubost 1987, Janson & Emmons 1990). Once on the ground after natural fall, or having been dropped by flying or arboreal vertebrates beneath fruiting trees as well as away, fruits and seeds are also dispersed and eaten by ground-dwelling vertebrates ...
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Magellanic Woodpecker Frugivory and Predation on a Lizard
The Wilson Bulletin, 2003I report observations of fruit consumption by Magellanic Woodpeckers (Campephilus magellanicus) and an opportunistic predation on a lizard (Liolaemus sp.) by an adult male. During normal feeding activities, the woodpecker snatched from a bark crevice of a lenga (Nothofagus pumilio) tree a lizard, which he then beat until stunned or dead, before flying ...
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