Nutrition or detoxification: why bats visit mineral licks of the Amazonian rainforest

Many animals in the tropics of Africa, Asia and South America regularly visit so-called salt or mineral licks to consume clay or drink clay-saturated water. Whether this behavior is used to supplement diets with locally limited nutrients or to buffer the effects of toxic secondary plant compounds re...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one 2008-04, Vol.3 (4), p.e2011
Hauptverfasser:	Voigt, Christian C, Capps, Krista A, Dechmann, Dina K N, Michener, Robert H, Kunz, Thomas H
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aluminum Silicates Animal behavior Animal lactation Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena Animals Bats Bats (Animals) Biogeochemistry Biology Biotransformation Breastfeeding & lactation Buffers Carollia perspicillata Chiroptera Clay Clay minerals Detoxification Diet Dietary minerals Drinking water Ecology/Behavioral Ecology Ecology/Evolutionary Ecology Ecology/Physiological Ecology Energy demand Females Fruit Fruits Fruits (Food) Glossophaga soricina Glossophaginae Hypotheses Insecta Insects Isotope ratios Mineral licks Mineral reserves Minerals Minerals - metabolism Nitrogen Nitrogen (Chemical element) Nutrients Nutrition Nutrition research Nutrition/Malnutrition Odocoileus Odocoileus virginianus Phyllostomidae Physiology Plecotus auritus Pregnancy Rain forests Rainforests Rousettus Salts South America Tadarida brasiliensis Trees Tropical Climate Zoology
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