Condensed tannins reduce browsing and increase grazing time of free-ranging goats in semi-arid savannas

Authors: Ntuthuko R. Mkhize, Ignas M. A. Heitkönig, Peter F. Scogings, Luthando E. Dziba, Herbert H. T. Prins, Willem F. de Boer

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: feeding behaviour, foraging, herbivore, polyethylene glycol

2015

Near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) analyses of nutrient composition and condensed tannin concentrations in carolina willow (Salix caroliniana)

Authors: Shana R. Lavin, Kathleen E. Sullivan, Stuart C. Wooley, Koni Stone, Scott Russell, Eduardo V. Valdes

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: browse, condensed tannins, herbivore, iron, iron overload, nutrition

2015

Foods Eaten by the Sichuan Snub-Nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) in Shennongjia National Nature Reserve, China, in Relation to Nutritional Chemistry

Authors: Xuecong Liu, Craig B. Stanford, Jingyuan Yang, H. U. I. Yao, Yiming Li

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: diet, lichen, nutritional chemistry, rhinopithecus roxellana

2013

Effect of tannic acid on iron absorption in straw-colored fruit bats (Eidolon helvum)

Authors: Shana R. Lavin, Zhensheng Chen, Steven A. Abrams

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: diet, hemochromatosis, iron bioavailability, iron storage disease, tannin

2010

Tannins and Self-Medication: Implications for Sustainable Parasite Control in Herbivores

Authors: L. D. Lisonbee, J. J. Villalba, F. D. Provenza, J. O. Hall

Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes

Keywords: herbivores, internal parasites, self-medication, tannin

2009

Energy supply of the okapi in captivity: fermentation characteristics of feedstuffs

Authors: Jürgen Hummel, Gunther Nogge, Marcus Clauss, Camilla Nørgaard, Kristina Johanson, Joeke Nijboer, Ernst Pfeffer

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: energy content, fermentation rate, in vitro fermentation, rumen balance

2006

Duikers: Native food composition, micronutrient assessment, and implications for improving captive diets

Authors: Ellen S. Dierenfeld, Pamela J. Mueller, Mary Beth Hall

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: fruit composition, mineral, nutrition, small ungulates, vitamin

2002

The effect of food quality and relative abundance on food choice in fallow deer

Authors: Ulrika Alm, Björn Birgersson, Olof Leimar

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: abundance, artiodactyla, captivity, cervidae, dama dama, diet, feeding, feeding behavior, feeding preference, food intake, herbivorous, mammalia, nutrient, resource, tannin, toxin, ungulata, vertebrata

2002

Fiber digestibility and nitrogen requirements of blue duikers (Cephalophus monticola)

Authors: Lisa A. Shipley, Laura Felicetti

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: endogenous urinary nitrogen, frugivory, metabolic fecal nitrogen, tannins

2002

Pathogenesis of hemosiderosis in lemurs: Role of dietary iron, tannin, and ascorbic acid

Authors: Lucy H. Spelman, Kent G. Osborn, Marilyn P. Anderson

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: diet, duodenum, liver, spleen

1989