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Amount of Plant Foods Eaten and Sexual Differences in Feeding among Wild Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) of Kanyawara Community

Table 1

Average number of feeding bouts per day (no. bouts), average weight of food eaten per feeding bout (Wgt/bout (g)), and average weight of food eaten per day (Wgt/day (g)) irrespective of food type and season.
Age groupNo. of boutsWgt/bout (g)Wgt/day (g)n
Adult female 1 1 . 3 ± 1 . 4 5 8 4 . 1 ± 6 2 . 3 6 0 1 9 . 5 ± 4 0 6 . 8 3
Adult male 1 2 ± 1 . 4 5 7 2 . 8 ± 8 6 . 3 6 3 3 2 . 6 ± 6 4 7 . 2 3
Sub-adult male 1 5 . 6 ± 2 . 1 4 3 5 . 3 ± 1 3 6 . 2 6 4 7 3 . 9 ± 1 7 2 . 9 3
Sub-adult female 1 5 . 4 ± 0 . 8 4 6 0 . 6 ± 4 9 . 2 6 8 2 4 . 9 ± 6 0 7 . 5 2
Where n = number of individuals sampled.