Feeding ecology of bonobos living in forest-savannah mosaics: Diet seasonal variation and importance of fallback foods.

ABSTRACT: Primates along with many other animal taxa are forced to cope with large shifts in basic ecological conditions because of rapid anthropogenically induced changes of their habitats. One of the coping strategies for primates is to adjust their diet to these changes, and several studies have demonstrated the importance of fallback resources for this. Bonobos, like chimpanzees, might be particularly vulnerable to habitat fragmentation because of their high dependence on fruit availability. Little is known, however, about bonobo feeding ecology in fragmented habitats and their use of fallback resources. In this study, we investigate diet seasonal variation and the exploitation of preferred and fallback foods in a bonobo population living in forest-savannah mosaics. Results show that bonobos hav

SUBMITTER: Serckx A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7159761 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature