Changes through the Day in the Food Choice of Wild Gibbons
- 22 December 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Brill in Folia Primatologica
- Vol. 30 (3) , 194-205
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000155863
Abstract
Several studies of primates have found that they tend to eat different foods at different times of day. A detailed study of a small sample of siamang and lar gibbons shows that they select figs in the morning, young leaves in the afternoon and figs again for the last feed of the day. Various explanations of these choices are offered, centering on how the gibbons can best meet their energy demands overnight and at dawn.Keywords
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