Publisher Summary This chapter traces the historical background of plant tannins. It
describes distribution, chemistry, potential modes of action, and the quantitative evaluation …

Field studies conducted over the past 25 years have documented significant differences in
diet, foraging patterns, and locomotor behavior in sympatric primate species (20, 21, 25, 35 …

Food is vital for life. It provides nutrients for growth, maintenance, and reproduction, and is
the source of energy that drives the chemical reactions occurring in every cell. 1, 2 However …

The study of self‐medication in non‐human primates sheds new light on the complex
interactions of animal, plant and parasite. A variety of non‐nutritional plant secondary …

In order to understand dietary differentiation among frugivorous primates with simple
stomachs, we present the first comparison of plant diets between chimpanzees and …

Isoprenoids and phenolics, major metabolites of important browse species, are reviewed in
regard to concentrations, distribution within tissues, and between species. Seasonal …

Current theories on plant–herbivore interactions suggest that plant species of different
successional status and leaves of various ages differ in their degree of ephemerality and …

The recent literature on plant secondary compounds and their influence on primate feeding
behavior is reviewed. Many studies of nonhuman primates document the extreme selectivity …

The leaf-monkey Presbytis johnii has been found to exhibit considerable selectivity in its
dietary utilization of mature foliage in a rain-forest habitat. To investigate the basis of this …

Food partitioning among lemurs was studied in relation to food patch size and plant
chemistry in the eastern rainforest and a western deciduous forest of Madagascar. Patch …