Relationship Between Jaw Apparatus, Feeding Habit, and Food Source in Oriental Woodpeckers

dc.contributorUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
dc.creatorDonatelli, Reginaldo José
dc.creatorHoefling, Elizabeth
dc.creatorCatalano, Ana Luiza C.
dc.date2014-12-03T13:11:45Z
dc.date2016-10-25T20:15:01Z
dc.date2014-12-03T13:11:45Z
dc.date2016-10-25T20:15:01Z
dc.date2014-04-01
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-06T06:34:05Z
dc.date.available2017-04-06T06:34:05Z
dc.identifierZoological Science. Tokyo: Zoological Soc Japan, v. 31, n. 4, p. 223-227, 2014.
dc.identifier0289-0003
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/113495
dc.identifierhttp://acervodigital.unesp.br/handle/11449/113495
dc.identifier10.2108/zs130146
dc.identifierWOS:000333625300005
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2108/zs130146
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/924237
dc.descriptionAssociations among feeding habit, beak type, and food source in birds have been widely studied and are well known to exist. The relationship between feeding habit and jaw apparatus in birds has not attracted attention from ornithologists, perhaps because of the complexity of the skeletal morphology of the feeding system of birds. The goal of this study was to compare the jaw apparatus and foraging strategies of various Oriental species of the Picidae (Meiglyptini and Picini tribes) using a morphofunctional analysis of the skeletal structure of the jaw apparatus. This study showed that there are at least three types of jaw apparatus in these woodpeckers, as follows: 1) robust, developed, and complex; 2) complexity and development intermediate, as observed in Meiglyptes tristis and Dinopium spp., whose main foraging method involves gleaning, probing, and tapping; and 3) poorly developed, as observed in Picus miniaceus and Hemicircus concretus. The success of woodpeckers as a natural group is due not only to their feeding diversity, but also their ability to explore a wide range of different resources, as appropriate to their jaw apparatus.
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherZoological Soc Japan
dc.relationZoological Science
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subjectbirds
dc.subjectOriental Picidae
dc.subjectjaw apparatus
dc.subjectfeeding habits
dc.subjectform and function
dc.titleRelationship Between Jaw Apparatus, Feeding Habit, and Food Source in Oriental Woodpeckers
dc.typeOtro


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