2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2016.05.006
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Watering holes: The use of arboreal sources of drinking water by Old World monkeys and apes

Abstract: Water is one of the most important components of an animal's diet, as it is essential for life. Primates, as do most animals, procure water directly from standing or free-flowing sources such as pools, ponds and rivers, or indirectly by the ingestion of certain plant parts. The latter is frequently described as the main source of water for predominantly arboreal species. However, in addition to these, many species are known to drink water accumulated in tree-holes. This has been commonly observed in several ar… Show more

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“…Differently from the tropics (Yanoviak 2001), we did not record reptiles visiting the WHs. The activities carried out at WHs by other vertebrate species, however, resembled those recorded in the tropical and subtropical environment, including drinking, bathing and feeding (Yanoviak 2001, Walters and Kneitel 2004, Vickers et al 2014, Sharma et al 2016. The importance of vertebrate predation on the aquatic insect larvae in WHs have recently been shown by experiments with fake larvae in European beech forests (Gossner et al 2020).…”
Section: Importance For Vertebrates In Temperate Forestsmentioning
confidence: 97%
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“…Differently from the tropics (Yanoviak 2001), we did not record reptiles visiting the WHs. The activities carried out at WHs by other vertebrate species, however, resembled those recorded in the tropical and subtropical environment, including drinking, bathing and feeding (Yanoviak 2001, Walters and Kneitel 2004, Vickers et al 2014, Sharma et al 2016. The importance of vertebrate predation on the aquatic insect larvae in WHs have recently been shown by experiments with fake larvae in European beech forests (Gossner et al 2020).…”
Section: Importance For Vertebrates In Temperate Forestsmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…wasps, bees and beetles, Gossner 2018, Petermann unpubl.). Vertebrates are sometimes targeted in WH studies from tropical and subtropical regions (Yanoviak 2001, Walters and Kneitel 2004, Vickers et al 2014, Sharma et al 2016), but to our knowledge, there is no study carried out in temperate regions on the use of WHs by vertebrates.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…The use of the tail to collect water by 1 individual was an unusual form of the "dipping-and-licking" technique [Wrangham, 1981], in which the subjects immerse their hands and forearms into a tree hole and then lick off the water which has adhered to the hair (e.g., black howler monkey, Alouatta caraya [Bicca-Marques, 1992]; Temminck's red colobus monkey, Procolobus badius [Starin, 2002]; Western hoolock gibbons, Hoolock hoolock , and northern pig-tailed macaques, Macaca leonina [Sharma et al, 2016]). In S. libidinosus the use of the tail to access water sources was also observed in captive animals [Castro S.C.N., unpubl.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…nutrients, hormones, metabolites, antibodies, and neurotransmitters), electrolyte homeostasis, transmission of light and sound, and thermoregulation [2][3][4]. Therefore, water intake is essential for animal health and survival, particularly in the case of terrestrial vertebrates [3,[5][6][7].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…metabolic water resulting from macronutrient oxidation) water during dry periods [2,10]. In addition to these water sources, animals inhabiting wetter environments also rely on another major source, drinking water [2,7,11]. Drinking is rare (e.g.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%