Fruit selection of a binturong (Arctictis binturong) by focal animal sampling in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

• Main Authors: Miyabi Nakabayashi, Abdul Hamid Ahmad, Shiro Kohshima
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2016
• Subjects: QH Natural history
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/19900/1/Fruit%20selection%20of%20a%20binturong.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/19900/7/Fruit%20selection%20of%20a%20binturong%20%28Arctictis%20binturong%29.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/19900/; https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2015-0009

We investigated fruit selection of a radio-collared female binturong (Arctictis binturong pageli Schwarz, 1911) by focal animal sampling in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. We recorded seven food species from 12 feeding trees over 16 months. The radio-collared binturong fed only ripe fig fruits (Ficus spp.,...