Dhananjaya, Tejeshwar and Das, Sayantan and Vyas, Amal K. and Gahlot, Prakhar and Singh, Mewa (2022) Extent of encounter with an embedded food influences how it is processed by an urbanizing macaque species. Behaviour, 159 (7). pp. 657-689. ISSN 1568-539X
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Rapid urbanization exerts novel adaptive pressures on animals at the interface of natural and altered environments. Urban animals often rely on synthetic foods that require skilled extraction and flexible processing. We studied how synthetic treatment of an embedded food, peanut, determined its extraction and processing across groups of bonnet macaques (Macaca radiata) differing in encounter and familiarity with peanut. The possibility of the application of processing methods to similar foods was also tested. We found encounter- and form (native/shelled/skinned)-specific familiarity to peanuts, state (raw/boiled/roasted)-specific distinction in skinning, and encounterand state-specific differences in methods of skinning. The group with the highest encounter with peanuts exhibited novel and manipulatively complex processing. Novel processing was also extended to peas and chickpeas. Our study establishes a strong relationship between familiarity with the condition of food and the processing methods used and further, demonstrates the probable role of categorization in extension of novel methods.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | embedded food; extractive foraging; peanut extraction; peanut processing; synanthropism; novel food processing |
| Subjects: | A Arts and Humanities > Psychology |
| Divisions: | Department of > Centre for the study of Social Exclusion and Inculsive Policy |
| Depositing User: | C Swapna Library Assistant |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Aug 2023 09:53 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Aug 2023 09:53 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/id/eprint/17679 |
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