Optimal diet strategy of a large-bodied psittacine: food resource abundance and nutritional content enable facultative dietary specialization by the Military Macaw

Optimal diet strategy of a large-bodied psittacine: food resource abundance and nutritional content enable facultative dietary specialization by the Military Macaw

Abstract Background Dietary specialization should arise when there is a relatively high abundance of a particular resource, where animals may select food items to obtain an optimal diet that maximizes energy intake. Large-bodied psittacines frequently exhibit a narrow dietary niche with specific hab...

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Main Authors: Sylvia Margarita de la Parra-Martínez, Luis Guillermo Muñoz-Lacy, Alejandro Salinas-Melgoza, Katherine Renton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2019-10-01
Series:Avian Research
Subjects:
Ara militaris
Bromatological analysis
Diet composition
Food resource selection
Fruiting phenology
Hura polyandra
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40657-019-0177-2

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