Both teeth and the digestive tract show adaptations that are commonly interpreted in the
context of trophic guilds—faunivory, herbivory and omnivory. Teeth prepare food for the …

Herbivores face the dilemma that the level of feed intake is negatively related to factors that
determine digestive efficiency, such as thoroughness of ingesta comminution by chewing …

Both diet and host phylogeny shape the gut microbial community, and separating out the
effects of these variables can be challenging. In this study, high-throughput sequencing was …

Objectives In humans it has been shown that abrasive particles in the diet result in increased
tooth wear and less intense chewing behavior, both of which decrease chewing efficiency …

Chewing efficiency has been associated with fitness in mammals, yet little is known about
the behavioral, ecological, and morphological factors that influence chewing efficiency in …

Primates are among the most important seed dispersers in the habitats they occupy.
Understanding the extent of, and gaps in, our knowledge of seed dispersal by Asian …

The mean retention times (MRT) of solute or particles in the gastrointestinal tract and the
forestomach (FS) are crucial determinants of digestive physiology in herbivores. Besides …

Foraging strategies are central in shaping social structure and grouping patterns in primates.
We address Colobus guereza foraging strategies by investigating their patch departure …

Carbon isotopic analysis has been challenging our ideas about hominin diet for nearly 30
years. The first study in 1994 revealed that Paranthropus robustus from South Africa …

Behavioral observations and small fecal particles compared to other primates indicate that
free-ranging proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) have a strategy of facultative merycism …