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Bolivian rainforest study suggests feeding behavior in monkeys and humans have ancient, shared roots

...rhaps by regulating logging and selecting certain tree species for re-planting. The majority of the monkeys' nourishment was sourced from a species of fig tree, Ficus boliviana, that is currently being harvested for timber in Bolivia." Dr Felton and her colleagues found that the monkeys ate a wide var...

Tamed 11,400 years ago, figs were likely first domesticated crop

...griculture may have come with the domestication of fig trees in the Near East some 11,400 years ago, roug..." The researchers found nine small figs and 313 fig drupelets (a small part of an aggregate fruit such...may have been dried for human consumption. Similar fig drupelets were found at a second site located some...

Primates take weather into account when searching for fruits

...st complete record of their foraging decisions in relation to their preferred food, figs. The data showed that the monkeys were more likely to revisit fig trees (in which they had found fruit before) after a period of warm and sunny days than after a period of cold and cloudy days. Temperature and solar ...