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Table 4 Percentage of feeding time devoted to different food items by wild populations of Chlorocebus

From: Dietary flexibility of Bale monkeys (Chlorocebus djamdjamensis) in southern Ethiopia: effects of habitat degradation and life in fragments

Species

Study length (mon)

Group (n or name)

BYL

OYL

ML

BSH

GRB

TL

FR

S

TF

FL

ST

GU

AP

OS

No. spp

Site, Country

Reference

Chlorocebus djamdjamensis

12

CA

57.7

3.1

0.5

19.7

0.7

81.7

7.5

0.0

7.5

6.0

0.9

0.0

2.4

1.6

12

Odobullu (CF), Ethiopia

This study

C. djamdjamensis

12

CB

64.2

3.2

0.4

17.6

0.6

86.0

5.4

0.0

5.4

4.5

1.7

0.0

1.5

0.9

8

Odobullu (CF), Ethiopia

This study

C. djamdjamensis

12

Patchy

15.7

21.4

0.0

14.3

7.8

59.2

21.6

6.1

27.2

1.0

7.2

0.0

3.3

1.6

47

Kokosa (FF), Ethiopia

This study

C. djamdjamensis

12

Hilltop

1.3

15.8

0.1

0.3

17.7

35.2

21.0

0.5

21.5

2.6

18.5

0.0

13.7

8.5a

35

Afursa (FF), Ethiopia

This study

C. djamdjamensis

8

2

73.0

7.2

1.1

1.5

0.9

82.8

9.6

0.0

9.6

3.1

1.4

0.0

2.3

0.9

11

Odobullu (CF), Ethiopia

Mekonnen et al. [54]

C. pygerythrus

11

2

0.0

0.8

–

0.0

4.7

5.5

7.0

10.2

17.2

7.6

8.0

47.9

0.7

13.1

–

Laikipia (Acacia xanthophloea Woodland), Kenya

Isbell et al. [61]

C. pygerythrus

11

2

0.0

3.2

–

0.0

3.4

6.6

1.7

6.6

8.3

2.3

0.0

39.5

7.5

35.8

–

Laikipia (A. drepanolobium Woodland), Kenya

Isbell et al. [61]

C. pygerythrus

9

3

0.0

–

–

0.0

–

26.6

11.1

2.6

13.7

0.0

0.0

30.0

7.7

0.2

–

Amboseli, Kenya

Wrangham and Waterman [91]

C. pygerythrus

26

1

0.0

–

–

0.0

8.3

8.3

5.8

19.6

25.4

44.7

0.0

0.0

0.0

1.3

–

Saumburu-Isiolo, Kenya

Whitten [70]

C. sabaeus

  

0.0

–

–

0.0

0.0

–

50.2

12.8

63.0

13.0

0.0

0.0

13.1

10.9

–

Mt. Assirik, Senegal

Harrison [90]

C. tantalus

11

1

0.0

–

–

0.0

0.0

20.5

49.2

0.0

49.2

5.3

0.0

0.0

25.1

0.0

28

Ngel Nyaki, Nigeria

Agmen et al. [89]

  1. BYL bamboo young leaves, OYL young leaves except bamboo and grass, ML mature leaves, BSH bamboo shoots, GRL grass blades, TL total leaves, FR fruits, S seeds, TF total fruits, FL flowers, ST stems, PT petioles, GU gum, AP animal prey, OS others
  2. Habitat: CF continuous forest, FF fragmented forest
  3. a8.3 petiole