Geophagy in two parrot species in southern Pantanal, Brazil

Biota Neotropica

Francisco Severo-neto¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde Programa de Pós Graduação em Ecologia e ConservaçãoCampo Grande MS ,Brasil

关键词: geophagy;    Pantanal;    psittacines;    parrots;    wetland;    feeding ecology;    geofagia;    Pantanal;    psittacidae;    araras;    área úmida;    ecologia alimentar;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1676-06032012000200020

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Geophagy is a habit recorded for parrots, which seek earthy or soil-like substances presumably to help them in digestive functions, whether mechanical or chemical ones. Few studies are devoted to this feeding peculiarity in the Pantanal region. Here are reported two events of geophagy, for the Blue-and-yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna) and the Nanday Parakeet (Aratinga nenday) in the Pantanal subregions of the Miranda-Abobral and Nhecolândia, Mato Grosso do Sul, respectively.

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