Feral pigeons in urban environments: dietary flexibility and enzymatic digestion? Palomas domésticas en ambientes urbanos: ¿flexibilidad dietaria y digestión enzimática?

Feral pigeons in urban environments: dietary flexibility and enzymatic digestion? Palomas domésticas en ambientes urbanos: ¿flexibilidad dietaria y digestión enzimática?

Columba livia, original from Europe, is at present widely distributed all over the world. These granivores colonized urban environments where the availability of crops and seeds is not always permanent and, for that are forced to exploit other resources with different composition, e.g. high protein...

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Main Authors: MARÍA EUGENIA CIMINARI, GRACIELA DEL VALLE MOYANO, JUAN GABRIEL CHEDIACK, ENRIQUE CAVIEDES-VIDAL
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2005-06-01
Series:Revista Chilena de Historia Natural
Subjects:
palomas domésticas
flexibilidad dietaria
plasticidad digestiva
enzimas intestinales
enzimas pancreáticas
feral pigeons
dietary flexibility
digestive plasticity
intestinal enzymes
pancreatic enzymes
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