Observations on the Diet of the Giant Armadillo (Priodontes maximus Kerr, 1792)

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Dec 2013 English Publisher:EdentataJournal:Edentata, volume 14, pages 85-86 (issn: 1413-4411,

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Authors: Robert B. Wallace; R. Lilian E. Painter;

doi: 10.5537/020.014.0112

Observations on the Diet of the Giant Armadillo (Priodontes maximus Kerr, 1792)

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Abstract In this short note we report on the stomach contents of a giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus) in the Bolivian Amazon. The stomach exclusively contained seeds of a relatively large-seeded unknown species of fig (Ficus sp.). Subsequent observations under fruiting Ficus free-standing trees at a second location in eastern Bolivia further suggested that Priodontes occasionally feed on figs.

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