ANT 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Goeldi'S Marmoset, Frugivore, Cecum
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A budget on how much energy you have to give off. Guts and brains are the most expensive organs to maintain. Everybody eats fruit because it provides easily digestible sugar; they are meant to be eaten. Mutual bene cial relationship between plants that make fruit and they animals that eat them. Long digestive tracks; host microorganisms in their stomachs to help digest. Need protein (faunivory and folivory get lots of protein), carbohydrates, fats, vitamins (in small quantities), and water. Humans sweat and we are hairless (sweaty, naked apes) and are water-dependent. **seed predators, ower-eaters, and woody stem eaters (bamboo) Smaller bodied animals can eat more insects and grains. Larger bodied primates eat more fruit and leaves. Cathemeral (day or night/ irregular)/crepuscular (active at dawn or dusk) How much they move around and forage for food/traveling/feeding/resting/grooming/etc. Home range: area they stay in regularly for a certain amount of days.
