2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Relations between survival strategies and morphology of African cercopithecids
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21255006
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 海外学術 |
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| Research Field |
Physical anthropology
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| Research Institution | Sugiyama Jogakuen University |
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Principal Investigator |
IHOBE Hiroshi 椙山女学園大学, 人間関係学部, 教授 (20252413)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
FURUICHI Takeshi 京都大学, 霊長研, 教授 (20212194)
HASHIMOTO Chie 京都大学, 霊長研, 助教 (40379011)
SHIMIZU Daisuke 日本モンキーセンター, 研究員 (60432332)
TASHIRO Yasuko 林原・類人猿研究センター, 研究員 (60379013)
TSUJI Yamato 京都大学, 霊長研, 助教 (70533595)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2012
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| Keywords | コロブス / グエノン / 採食生態 / 形態学的解析 / 進化 / 種間比較 |
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| Research Abstract |
Relations between survival strategies and morphology of jaws and teeth among African cercopithecids were investigated. The differences of used plant foods among guenons were found. L’hoest’s monkeys (Cercopithecus lhoesti), which frequently fed on hard leaves, had strong jaws and teeth adapting to wear down. Colobus monkeys, which have specialized digestive organs, morphologically adapted to feed on hard leaves by different ways of guenons.
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