The sensory ecology of primate food perception
By N. Dominy, P. Lucas, Daniel Osorio, Nayuta Yamashita. 2001
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Although remembered space is thelongest-range food “sense,” actingwell beyond an individual’s immedi-ate sensory environment, it is the leastacute. In other words, primates mayknow precisely where a food source islocated, but need other sensory cuesto define narrowly what is and is notedible. Figure 1 is a map of the exter-nal senses of a primate attempting toforage in a tropical rain forest. Thescale is logarithmic, in accord withknown principles of psychophysicalresponse to sensory stimuli.
Subfields: Nutrition and Dietetics, Sensory Systems, Social Psychology
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Citations in the corpus
- Sensory Basis of Food Detection in Wild Microcebus murinus (2007, background): “Despite the widespread occurrence of animal eating in nocturnal primates both in a taxonomic and geographic dimension, it is virtually unknown how they find this type of food at night (Dominy et al. 2001).”
- New World Monkeys and Color (2007, background): “In addition, as Dominy et al. (2001) emphasized, an array of more proximate sensory capacities, such as taste and texture in the mouth, can be central to feeding decisions.”