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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Body size and fatness of free‐living baboons reflect food availability and activity levels
American Journal of Primatology, Volume 30, No. 2, Year 1993
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We used morphometric techniques and isotope‐labeled water to investigate the influence of abundant, accessible food and resultant low activity levels on body size and fatness in free‐living adolescent and adult baboons as compared to animals in the same population that experienced more typical, wild‐feeding conditions. Females that had access to abundant food from a nearby garbage dump averaged 16.7 kg body mass, 50% more than their wild‐feeding counterparts in adjacent home ranges. Little of the difference was due to lean mass: the animals with an accessible abundance of food averaged 23.2% body fat in contrast to 1.9% for the wild‐feeding animals. Significant differences between feeding conditions were found for all measured skinfolds and for upper arm circumference but not for linear measurements. Differences between feeding conditions were less for males than for females, perhaps reflecting persistent effects of nutritional conditions during the first eight years of life before dispersal from the group of birth. The difference in fatness between feeding conditions was similar to the difference between humans with frank obesity and those that are considered lean, but in both cases the percentages of body fat in the baboons were considerably less than those observed in humans. In levels of fatness, the relatively sedentary animals resembled their counterparts in group‐housed captive conditions. © 1993 Wiley‐Liss, Inc. Copyright © 1993 Wiley‐Liss, Inc., A Wiley Company
Authors & Co-Authors
Altmann, Jeanne
United States, Chicago
The University of Chicago
Kenya, Nairobi
National Museums of Kenya
United States, Brookfield
Brookfield Zoo
Schoeller, Dale A.
United States, Chicago
The University of Chicago
Altmann, Stuart A.
United States, Chicago
The University of Chicago
Kenya, Nairobi
National Museums of Kenya
Muruthi, Philip M.
Kenya, Nairobi
National Museums of Kenya
United States, Brookfield
Brookfield Zoo
Sapolsky, Robert M.
Kenya, Nairobi
National Museums of Kenya
United States, Palo Alto
Stanford University
Statistics
Citations: 219
Authors: 5
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1002/ajp.1350300207
ISSN:
02752565
e-ISSN:
10982345
Research Areas
Environmental
Food Security
Health System And Policy
Noncommunicable Diseases
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Participants Gender
Female