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Foraging Responses To Nutritional Pressures In Two Species Of Cercopithecines: Macaca Mulatta And Papio Ursinus, Gretchen A. Clymer
Foraging Responses To Nutritional Pressures In Two Species Of Cercopithecines: Macaca Mulatta And Papio Ursinus, Gretchen A. Clymer
Anthropology Theses
Papio ursinus are dietary generalists that exploit a diverse repertoire of food resources. This study explored the foraging strategies of a group of Papio ursinus and the foraging differences between subgroups classified by age and sex. Food resource preference, nutritional properties of food resources, and nutritional demands were examined to test the hypotheses that the foraging strategies exhibited by the subgroups would differ and that food selection is driven by nutritional demands. Adult females and juveniles were found to seek out food resources higher in proteins, while adult males were found to prefer food resources higher in carbohydrates. The findings …
Before The Inca: Prehistoric Dietary Transitions In The Argentine Cuyo, Nicole Shelnut
Before The Inca: Prehistoric Dietary Transitions In The Argentine Cuyo, Nicole Shelnut
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
A dietary reconstruction was performed in order to understand changing prehistoric subsistence patterns in the Central Andean geographical area of the Argentine Cuyo that includes the provinces of San Juan and Mendoza. Archaeologically, the Cuyo is also known as a boundary between Andean agriculturalists and the foragers of Patagonia. One hypothesis being tested is whether this area was one of the last South American cultural groups to convert to maize cultivation, probably around 2000 BP. The process of stable isotope analysis is used to reconstruct the diets of individuals, as it reveals the relative proportions of C3 and C4 plants …