Journal
BIOTROPICA
Volume 41, Issue 3, Pages 279-282Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2009.00514.x
Keywords
Amazon; geophagy; natural lick; psittacids; salt lick; tropical wet forest
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- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Amazon Conservation Association
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Soils from 18 parrot collpas ('clay licks') in southeastern Peru averaged four times more available sodium than uneaten control soils. Collpa soils contained marginally more clay than control sites and clay content was uncorrelated with available sodium content. Parrots may select and ingest soils based on available sodium content.
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