Effect of dietary fibre on the faeces score in colobine monkeys at Dutch zoos

In captivity colobine monkeys often display a soft to watery faecal consistency, in contrast to their wild conspecifics, which usually display well-formed faeces. It has been suggested that dietary fibre, and possibly also dietary water content is related to faecal consistency. To further test this assumption we pooled data on 15 individual feeding periods from six feeding trials with colobine monkeys from different species, during which dietary and faecal chemical composition had been determined and faeces consistency had been scored with one consistent scoring scheme. Our pooled data suggest... Mehr ...