Differences in daily life between semiprovisioned and wild-feeding baboons.
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1988Author
Jeanne, Altmann
Muruthi, Philip
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Activity budgets and social aspects of feeding, among the adult females in
a group of semiprovisioned baboons that fed from a garbage dump were
compared with those of adjacent wild-feeding groups in Amboseli National
Park, Kenya, during the dry seasons of 1984 and 1985. Statistically
significant differences were found in time spent feeding, distance travelled,
and the relationship between dominance rank and time spent
feeding. The garbage-feeding animals fed for 20% of the time and rested
for almost 50%, in contrast to approximately 60% and lo%, respectively,
for the wild-feeding animals. Speed of travel, length of day-route, and
home range size were greatly reduced for the garbage-feeding animals.
Use of sleeping trees and day route were highly regular in contrast to the
unprovisioned group. At the garbage dump, time spent feeding was
correlated with dominance rank among the adult females of this study.
This was not the case for feeding on wild foods. Human enriched food
sources offer the opportunity to study limiting factors and relationships
between ecology and behavior. However, these conditions lead to humananimal
conflicts that may be to the animals' long-term detriment. Conservation
and management implications are discussed
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https://www.princeton.edu/~baboon/publications/AltmannMuruthi1984.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11295/92166
Citation
Altmann, Jeanne, and Philip Muruthi. "Differences in daily life between semiprovisioned and wild-feeding baboons." American Journal of Primatology 15.3 (1988): 213-221.Publisher
University of Nairobi