Nutritional content explains the attractiveness of cacao to crop raiding Tonkean macaques

Nutritional ecology has been linked to crop raiding behavior in a number of wildlife taxa. Here our goal is to explore the role nutrition plays in cacao crop raiding by Tonkean macaques Macaca tonkeana in Sulawesi, Indonesia. From June – Sept 2008 we collected fruit samples from 13 species known to...

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Main Author: Erin P. RILEY, Barbara TOLBERT, Wartika R. FARIDA
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2013-04-01
Series:Current Zoology
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Online Access:http://www.currentzoology.org/paperdetail.asp?id=12198