%0 Journal Article %J Primates %D 1990 %T Digging and eating of underground plant-parts by wild Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata) %A Iguchi, Motoi %A Izawa, Kosei %X

It has been reported that Japanese monkeys pull out and eat underground parts of plants, but they do so only a little and occasionally. The authors observed that wild Japanese monkeys in the mountains area near Hinohara Village ate underground plant-parts as one of the main components of their diet and they spent a lot of time digging for them. From information obtained from local old people, it appears that they have exhibited this behavior for many years as part of their feeding repertoire.

%B Primates %V 31 %P 621–624 %G eng %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02382548 %R 10.1007/BF02382548