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タイトル: | Factors Affecting Leaf Selection by Foregut-fermenting Proboscis Monkeys: New Insight from in vitro Digestibility and Toughness of Leaves |
著者: | Matsuda, Ikki https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0861-7801 (unconfirmed) Clauss, Marcus Tuuga, Augustine Sugau, John Hanya, Goro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8612-659X (unconfirmed) Yumoto, Takakazu Bernard, Henry Hummel, Jürgen |
著者名の別形: | 松田, 一希 半谷, 吾郎 湯本, 貴和 |
発行日: | 17-Feb-2017 |
出版者: | Springer Nature |
誌名: | Scientific Reports |
巻: | 7 |
論文番号: | 42774 |
抄録: | 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 the data for leaf toughness and digestibility measured by an in vitro gas production method, in addition to previously reported data on nutrient composition. Leaf toughness, in general, negatively correlated with the crude protein content, one of the most important nutritional factors affecting food selection by leaf-eating primates. This result suggests that leaf toughness assessed by oral sensation might be a proximate cue for its protein content. We confirmed the importance of the leaf chemical properties in terms of preference shown by N. larvatus; leaves with high protein content and low neutral detergent fibre levels were preferred to those of the common plant species. We also found that these preferred leaves were less tough and more digestible than the alternatives. Our in vitro results also suggested that N. larvatus were little affected by secondary plant compounds. However, the spatial distribution pattern of plant species was the strongest factor explaining the selection of the preferred leaf species. |
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URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2433/218687 |
DOI(出版社版): | 10.1038/srep42774 |
PubMed ID: | 28211530 |
出現コレクション: | 学術雑誌掲載論文等 |
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