Topic 2: Fatty Acid Content of the Plants Consumed by Japanese Macaques

The dietary crude fat content consumed by wild Japanese macaques (Macaca ­fuscata) has previously been measured from the point of view of energy balance (Iwamoto 1982; Nakagawa 1989; Soumah and Yokota 1991). However, the fatty acid contents of the foods consumed by primates including Japanese macaques have not yet been reported, even though they are nutritionally important for humans. This paper is a summary of our previous report, which was written in Japanese (Koyama et al. 2008).