Book contents
- The Colobines
- Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
- The Colobines
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 General Introduction
- 2 Taxonomic Classification of Colobine Monkeys
- 3 The Colobine Fossil Record
- 4 Molecular Phylogeny and Phylogeography of Colobines
- 5 Relationships between the Diet and Dentition of Asian Leaf Monkeys
- 6 Morphology and Physiology of Colobine Digestive Tracts
- 7 Colobine Gut Microbiota
- 8 Colobine Nutritional Ecology
- 9 Red Colobus Natural History
- 10 Natural History of Black-and-White Colobus Monkeys
- 11 Behaviour and Ecology of Olive Colobus
- 12 Ecology and Behaviour of Odd-Nosed Colobines
- 13 Ecology of Semnopithecus
- 14 Ecology of Sympatric and Allopatric Presbytis and Trachypithecus Langurs in Sundaland
- 15 Ecology of Trachypithecus spp. in the Indo-Burmese Region
- 16 Socioecology of Asian Colobines
- 17 Socioecology of African Colobines
- 18 Causes and Consequences of the Formation of Multilevel Societies in Colobines
- 19 Colobine Population Ecology
- 20 State of Asian Colobines and Their Conservation Needs
- 21 Conservation of Africa’s Colobine Monkeys (Cercopithecidae, Colobinae) with Taxonomic and Biogeographic Considerations
- 22 Directions for Future Research
- References
- Index
6 - Morphology and Physiology of Colobine Digestive Tracts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 February 2022
- The Colobines
- Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
- The Colobines
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 General Introduction
- 2 Taxonomic Classification of Colobine Monkeys
- 3 The Colobine Fossil Record
- 4 Molecular Phylogeny and Phylogeography of Colobines
- 5 Relationships between the Diet and Dentition of Asian Leaf Monkeys
- 6 Morphology and Physiology of Colobine Digestive Tracts
- 7 Colobine Gut Microbiota
- 8 Colobine Nutritional Ecology
- 9 Red Colobus Natural History
- 10 Natural History of Black-and-White Colobus Monkeys
- 11 Behaviour and Ecology of Olive Colobus
- 12 Ecology and Behaviour of Odd-Nosed Colobines
- 13 Ecology of Semnopithecus
- 14 Ecology of Sympatric and Allopatric Presbytis and Trachypithecus Langurs in Sundaland
- 15 Ecology of Trachypithecus spp. in the Indo-Burmese Region
- 16 Socioecology of Asian Colobines
- 17 Socioecology of African Colobines
- 18 Causes and Consequences of the Formation of Multilevel Societies in Colobines
- 19 Colobine Population Ecology
- 20 State of Asian Colobines and Their Conservation Needs
- 21 Conservation of Africa’s Colobine Monkeys (Cercopithecidae, Colobinae) with Taxonomic and Biogeographic Considerations
- 22 Directions for Future Research
- References
- Index
Summary
Colobine monkeys differ from all other primates in having a foregut fermentation system featuring a complex, multi-chambered stomach with either three or four chambers where a commensal microbiome digests plant cell walls and possibly detoxifies defensive plant chemicals. Obtaining information on their morpho-physiological digestive traits, focusing on their forestomach physiology, is indispensable for understanding the mechanism underlying their ecology and behaviour. Additionally, such information would be useful for their zoological management as colobines have often been considered difficult to maintain healthy in captivity. There are new developments in our understanding of colobine digestive strategies, especially in terms of behavioural level, e.g., “rumination strategy” and resting posture, and physiological level, e.g., digesta flow and microbial patterns, though there has not been much progress in terms of clarifying their anatomical attributes since the previous 1994 review. In this chapter, we overview the recent findings on colobine digestive strategies, focusing on their forestomach.
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