Figs make up roughly 60% of what an Eastern hoolock gibbon eats when fruit is available, and fruit overall accounts for around 65% of feeding time across the year. That’s…
Table of Contents TLDR Northern muriquis are leaf specialists first, fruit opportunists second. Across a year of feeding records at Fazenda Montes Claros, leaves made up 51% of their diet,…
TLDR Nilgiri langurs are leaf-eating specialists. Young leaves make up almost half their diet (around 44%), with the rest split between seeds, fruit, flowers, bark, and — oddly — soil….
TLDR Bonobos are frugivorous omnivores. Roughly 57% of their diet is fruit, another 30% or so is leaves, stems, and other plant matter (THV — terrestrial herbaceous vegetation), and meat…
Table of Contents TLDR: What Diana Monkeys Eat Diana monkeys (Cercopithecus diana) are fruit-first foragers who fill in the gaps with whatever the forest canopy is offering that week. The…
TLDR Red-fronted lemurs eat fruit, leaves, flowers, bark, and the occasional insect or fungus — but which of those dominates depends entirely on where in Madagascar the troop lives. In…
Pygmy marmosets eat tree gum. Not as a snack — as the main event. The world’s smallest monkey spends most of its feeding time gouging holes in bark and lapping…
Palau is a string of more than 300 islands scattered across the western Pacific, and that isolation is exactly what makes it so vulnerable. For millions of years, the plants…
Mongoose lemurs are primarily frugivores — fruit is the backbone of their diet — but the full answer is more interesting than that, because what they eat depends heavily on…