NDLI: Food digestibility of an Eurasian badgerMeles meles with special reference to the Mediterranean region

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Author	Rosalino, Luís M. Loureiro, Filipa Macdonald, David W. Santos Reis, Margarida
Copyright Year	2003
Abstract	Feeding trials were carried out with a captive adult badgerMeles meles (Linnaeus, 1758) to establish relationships (digestibility coefficients) between the biomass of freshly consumed food and the dry undigested remnants recovered from scats (bone, teeth, hair, feathers, exoskeleton parts, seeds, etc). The foods studied were those revealed by our research to be the principal components of badger diet in a Mediterranean environment, and the values of the digestibility coefficients (DC) were: 24.74 for rabbitsOryctolagus cuniculus, 21.72 for rodents, 19.81 for pigeonsColumba sp., 99.50 for amphibians, 32.35 for arthropods imago, 44.39 for insect larvae, 18.45 for earthwormsLumbricus rubellus, 2.75 for acornsQuercus sp., 9.19 for arbutusArbutus unedo, 12.25 for blackberriesRubus ulmifolius, 46.12 for figsFicus carica, 34.87 for loquatsEriobotrya japonica, 10.94 for olivesOlea europaea, and 12.02 for pearsPyrus bourgaeana. The variability of DC values was measured, and attributed to the heterogeneity of constituents of the selected food types. There was no statistically significant correlation between the average weight of consumed food and the digestibility coefficients, confirming the expectation that such coefficients must be derived empirically for each food type.
Starting Page	283
Ending Page	288
Page Count	6
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ISSN	00017051
Journal	Acta Theriologica
Volume Number	48
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	21903743
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2003-01-01
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
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Subject Keyword	Meles meles digestibility coefficients diet Mediterranean environments Zoology Animal Physiology Behavioural Sciences Animal Ecology Evolutionary Biology Animal Anatomy Morphology Histology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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