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Relationship of incisor size to diet and anterior tooth use in sympatric sumatran anthropoids

✍ Scribed by Peter S. Ungar

Book ID: 102656139
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Weight: 857 KB
Volume: 38
Category: Article
ISSN: 0275-2565
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2345(1996)38:2<145::aid-ajp3>3.0.co;2-z

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✦ Synopsis

Researchers often relate anthropoid incisor size to diet and ingestive behaviors. It is suggested that primates that frequently consume large, tough foods (i.e., fruits) require large incisors to process these items. This idea has been difficult to test because of a lack of data on anterior tooth use in wild primates, and a lack of understanding concerning the relationships between food properties and ingestive behaviors. The first field study of primate ingestive behaviors has recently been completed for four species of Sumatran anthropoids: