&lt;b&gt;The relationship between artificial food supply and natural food selection in two troops of commensal Hamadryas Baboons &lt;I&gt;Papio hamadryas&lt;/I&gt; (Mammalia: Primates: Cercopithecidae) in Saudi Arabia&lt;/b&gt;

Boug, Ahmed; Islam, M. Zafar-ul; Iwamoto, Toshitaka; Mori, Akio; Yamane, Akihiro; Schreier, Amy L.

doi:10.11609/jott.3348.9.10.10741-10756

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“…These needs can decisively preclude howlers from becoming dependent on supplemented foods, at least as far as they do not include leaves. This strategy of maintaining a nutritional balance between supplemented and wild foods was also reported for baboons ( Papio hamadryas : Boug et al, ). A potential reduction in the dispersal of seeds of native species together with the promotion of the dispersal of seeds of alien, potentially invasive, species are undesired side effects of the reduced consumption of wild fruits due to the ingestion of cultivated fruits (Chaves et al, ), as this ecosystem role change can alter the vegetation structure of habitat remnants (Sengupta, McConkey, & Radhakrishna, ).…”

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“…Supplemented food, such as fruit, is often more palatable, highly energetic, predictable, available in large amounts, and clustered (Boug et al, ; Fa, ; McLennan & Ganzhorn, ; Saj, Sicotte, & Paterson, ). Accessing it normally requires less effort to the forager than foraging for wild foods, making it an even more attractive option (Altmann & Muruthi, ; El Alami, Van Lavieren, Rachida, & Chait, ; Fa, ; Orams, ; Saj et al, ; Sha & Hanya, ; Strum, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Despite these short‐term potential energy‐ and metabolism‐related benefits, long‐term food supplementation can bring disadvantages. It can habituate free‐ranging animals to the presence of humans (McKinney, Westin, & Serio‐Silva, ; Newsome & Rodger, ; Orams, ), making them dependent on anthropic resources (Boug et al, ; Newsome & Rodger, ; Sha & Hanya, ), and more susceptible to injuries and parasite infections (Becker, Streicker, & Altizer, ; Blanco et al, ; Longa, ; Newsome & Rodger, ; Semeniuk & Rothley, ; but see Becker, Streicker, & Altizer, ). Furthermore, animals feeding on sugar‐ and fat‐rich foods can accumulate body fat and develop higher cholesterol levels (Maréchal, MacLarnon, Majolo, & Semple, ; Pragatheesh, ).…”

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“…The times devoted to moving and feeding tend to decrease, while resting and socializing tend to increase (e.g., Papio cynocephalus : Altmann & Muruthi, ; Chlorocebus pygerythrus : Saj et al, ; Macaca sylvanus : El Alami et al, ; Macaca mulatta : Jaman & Huffman, ). However, some supplemented groups do not change their activity budgets (e.g., Cebus capucinus : McKinney, ), others increase feeding and reduce resting (e.g., Papio hamadryas : Boug, Biquand, Biquand‐Guyot, & Kamal, ; Boug et al, ), and still others reverse their period of activity, becoming more active during the day than their nonsupplemented nocturnal relatives (e.g., Dasyatis americana : Corcoran et al, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To the best of our knowledge, no study has quantified the ingested biomass of supplemented foods and its representation in the daily diet or its short‐term influences on the feeding behavior and activity budget of supplemented individuals. In addition, the available information is focused on terrestrial and semiterrestrial species (e.g., P. hamadryas : Boug et al, , ; Macaca fascicularis : Sha & Hanya, 2013a; C. capucinus : McKinney, ; Sapajus libidinosus : Sabbatini et al, , ). Therefore, the effects of supplementation on highly arboreal primates are unknown.…”

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Supplemented howler monkeys eat less wild fruits, but do not change their activity budgets

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Bicca‐Marques

2019

American J Primatol

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Research on the influence of food supplementation on primate behavior has focused on terrestrial and semiterrestrial species. Its effects on highly arboreal species are poorly known. We assessed the influence of food supplementation on the feeding behavior and activity budget of four adult female and two adult male brown howler monkeys (Alouatta guariba clamitans) belonging to two groups (JA and RO) that inhabited periurban forest fragments in southern Brazil. We used the "focal-animal" method during 6-8 full days per month from March to August 2017 (916 h of observation) to record the behavior of the study subjects. The feeding events of the focal individual were recorded using the "all occurrences" method. The supplementation was unevenly distributed during the day and accounted for 5-6% of all feeding events of male and female howlers, respectively. JA always received fruit in a platform, whereas RO had access to fruits and processed foods on roofs and directly from humans. The mean biomass of wild foods ingested by each adult per day was >300% higher than the ingested biomass of supplemented foods (females: 395 vs. 109 g/day; males: 377 vs. 120 g/day), but the ingestion rate of supplemented foods was ca. 400% higher than that of wild foods (females: 17 vs. 4 g/min; males: 19 vs. 5 g/ min). The activity budgets of females and males were dominated by resting (66-72%) followed by feeding (18-14%), moving (12-11%), and socializing (2%). We found that food supplementation reduced the ingestion of wild fruits, but it did not affect the howlers' need to ingest a given amount of leaves per day and the time spent resting, feeding, moving, and socializing. K E Y W O R D SAlouatta guariba clamitans, anthropic food, behavioral flexibility, diet, human-wildlife interaction, provisioning

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Meat eating in wild hamadryas baboons: Opportunistic trade‐offs between insects and vertebrates

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Swedell

2019

American J Primatol

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The consumption of meat may provide herbivorous animals with important nutrients that are scarce in their plant-based diet. Seasonal variation in plant food availability has been suggested to motivate dietary flexibility in a range of species and thus primates may seek more prey when key plant resources are unavailable.Alternatively, prey encounter rate may drive meat eating. Here we investigate patterns of meat eating in hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas) at Filoha, Awash National Park, Ethiopia. The Filoha baboons rely largely on doum palm fruit (Hyphaene thebaica), which are available most months of the year, and the young leaves of Acacia senegal, which are more abundant during the wet season. We hypothesized that the baboons would consume more meat when H. thebaica and A. senegal were less available, which we tested by comparing meat eating and consumption of these plant food species from March 2005 through February 2006. Our results reveal a high rate of vertebrate meat eating at Filoha (0.028/hour of observation) compared with other hamadryas sites. We found no relationship, however, between meat eating (either insect or vertebrate) and either rainfall or consumption of H. thebaica or A. senegal, indicating that availability of preferred plant resources does not drive meat consumption. Vertebrate consumption and time spent feeding were significantly negatively associated; there was no relationship, however, between the consumption of animal matter and either home range size or daily path length. Vertebrate and insect consumption alternated throughout the year such that the baboons maintained a small amount of animal matter in their diet year-round. Our results suggest that the baboons do not often actively seek animal matter, but consume it opportunistically, with the presence of locust and dragonfly swarms driving insect consumption, and both prey availability and the availability of feeding time shaping vertebrate predation.

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Feeding ecology of a highland population of hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas) at Borena-Sayint National Park, northern Ethiopia

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<b>The relationship between artificial food supply and natural food selection in two troops of commensal Hamadryas Baboons <I>Papio hamadryas</I> (Mammalia: Primates: Cercopithecidae) in Saudi Arabia</b>

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Supplemented howler monkeys eat less wild fruits, but do not change their activity budgets

Supplemented howler monkeys eat less wild fruits, but do not change their activity budgets

Meat eating in wild hamadryas baboons: Opportunistic trade‐offs between insects and vertebrates

Feeding ecology of a highland population of hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas) at Borena-Sayint National Park, northern Ethiopia

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