Food preferences and nutrient composition in captive Southern brown howler monkeys, Alouatta guariba clamitans

Authors: P. Silveira, W. Valler Í, Z. M. B. Hirano, A. N. Dada, M. Laska, L. T. H. Salazar

Publication/Journal: Primates

Keywords: alouatta, alouatta guariba clamitans, animals, correlational analysis, female, food preference, haplorhini, humans, male, nutrient composition, nutrients, Southern brown howler monkey

2024

Understanding irregular shell formation of Nautilus in aquaria: Chemical composition and structural analysis

Authors: Mehdi Moini, Aoife O'Halloran, Alan M. Peters, Christine A. M. France, Edward P. Vicenzi, Tamsen G. DeWitt, Esther Langan, Tim Walsh, Robert J. Speakman

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: black line, cephalopods, isotopic abundances, mollusca, shell formation

2014

Asymmetric effects of contaminant exposure during asymmetric contests in the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus

Authors: Stephen J. White, Richard K. Pipe, Andrew Fisher, Mark Briffa

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: anthropogenic impact, copper, decision-making, hermit crab, pagurus bernhardus, pollutant

2013

Bacteriologic and Nutritional Evaluation of a Commercial Raw Meat Diet as Part of a Raw Meat Safety Program

Authors: Cora Singleton, Raymund Wack, R. Scott Larsen

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: coliforms, elisa, escherichia coli, petrifilm, salmonella

2012

The role of minerals in food selection in a black howler monkey (Alouatta Pigra) population in Belize following a major hurricane

Authors: Alison M. Behie, Mary S. M. Pavelka

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: food abundance, habitat disturbance, howler monkeys, minerals, nutrition

2012

Body temperature and thermoregulation of Komodo dragons in the field

Authors: Henry J. Harlow, Deni Purwandana, Tim S. Jessop, John A. Phillips

Publication/Journal: Journal of Thermal Biology

Keywords: body size, body temperature, komodo dragon, reptiles, thermoregulation

2010

Nutrient composition of plants consumed by black and white ruffed lemurs, Varecia variegata, in the Betampona Natural Reserve, Madagascar

Authors: Debra A. Schmidt, R. Bernard Iambana, Adam Britt, Randall E. Junge, Charles R. Welch, Ingrid J. Porton, Monty S. Kerley

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: energy, fat, fiber, mineral, protein

2010

Influence of nutrition on the quality of semen in Jaguars Panthera onca in Brazilian zoos

Authors: R. C. Rodrigues Da Paz, R. Morato GonÇAlves, A. C. Carciofi, M. A. B. V. GuimarÃEs, C. Pessuti, E. Ferraz Santos, F. Ferreira, R. C. Barnabe

Publication/Journal: International Zoo Yearbook

Keywords: diet, felids, jaguar, mineral supplementation, nutrition, reproduction, semen, vitamin supplementation, wildlife

2006

Mineral concentrations in serum/plasma and liver tissue of captive and free-ranging Rhinoceros species

Authors: Ellen S. Dierenfeld, Shirley Atkinson, A. Morrie Craig, Karen C. Walker, W. Jürgen Streich, Marcus Clauss

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: ceratotherium simum, dicerorhinus sumatrensis, diceros-bicornis, mineral nutrition, rhinoceros, rhinoceros unicornis

2005

Relationships among nutrition and reproduction and relevance for wild animals

Authors: Mary E. Allen, Duane E. Ullrey

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: energy, food restriction, minerals, protein, spermatogenesis, vitamins

2004