The Evolution of Exudativory in Primates 2010
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6661-2_2
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Nutritional and Digestive Challenges to Being a Gum-Feeding Primate

Abstract: Gum is an unusual food that presents significant challenges to animals that feed on it. Gum is limited in availability; trees generally secrete it only in response to damage. Gum is a b-linked complex polysaccharide, and as such is resistant to mammalian digestive enzymes and requires fermentation by gut microbes. It contains little or no lipid, low amounts of protein, and no appreciable levels of vitamins. As a food, gum can be characterized as difficult to obtain, potentially limited in quantity, difficult t… Show more

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“…As such, some harder exogenous particles can be expected to end up at the level of the molars during mastication. Another point to consider is that, although some primates feed extensively on gums, it does not provide all the necessary nutrients for a complete diet (Power, 2010). Gum-eating primates need to complete their diet with other resources, like insects or fruit, which would have the physical properties necessary to scar enamel.…”
Section: Discussion Extant Taxamentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…As such, some harder exogenous particles can be expected to end up at the level of the molars during mastication. Another point to consider is that, although some primates feed extensively on gums, it does not provide all the necessary nutrients for a complete diet (Power, 2010). Gum-eating primates need to complete their diet with other resources, like insects or fruit, which would have the physical properties necessary to scar enamel.…”
Section: Discussion Extant Taxamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Exudates and gums constitute a more constant resource, which is less susceptible to seasonal variations than other foods (Nash, 1986;Power, 2010). Although often grouped within ''fruit-eating,'' eating gums or other plant exudates implies a different set of adaptations and foraging strategies.…”
Section: Fossil Taxamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The preferred plant species were comparatively less abundant than the non-preferred species. Although E i * provides the single best electivity index (Le chowicz 1982), more information is required on the nutritional content of and seasonal changes in the composition of exudates (Power 2010 (Table 4). A number of the medicinal plants consumed by lorises have pharmacological importance and have antiparasitic, antifungal, antibacterial, antiviral cardiotonic and stimulatory properties, as well as uses in respiratory disease and wound healing cures in traditional medicines.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Nycticebus pygmaeus exhibits a gouging behaviour (methodical biting of tree lignin and cambium) to harvest exudates from trees such as gum trees (Starr & Nekaris 2013). Unrefined gum from wild species of trees is said to contain an important amount of calcium, which may be important to balance out the high phosphorous concentration found within the invertebrates that they ingest (Charles-Dominique 1977, Power 2010. Lorises have been recorded feeding from a variety of tree species nightly, specifically Sapindaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Fabaceae, Anarcdiaceae and Burseraceae (Tan & Drake 2001, Nekaris et al 2010, Streicher et al 2013.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%