IMAGES AND REVERSALS Enormous Eyes and Tiny Grasping Hands Thomas G. West The food is everywhere and the animal does not have to go to much trouble to find it. But there is another strategy. The animal can chose higher-quality food such as ripe fruit. This survival strategy requires a good deal more brainpower - - to find the right kinds of foods in the right places and at the right times. However, these higher-quality foods require a good deal less sophisticated chemical processing by the body to render the food useful. Accordingly, AIIman explains: "because of the high nutritional quality of ripe fruit and its easy digestibility, there is often intense competition from other animals for these scarce resources . . . . Fruit-eaters must plan their foraging expeditions carefully if they are to survive. By contrast, leaves are ubiquitous and can be easily harvested w i t h l i t t l e competition for these abundant resources." "Ripe fruits are a much rarer and more variable resource in space and time than are leaves.The existence of larger brains in fruiteaters than in leaf-eaters s u p p o r t s the hypothesis that
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Enormous eyes and tiny grasping hands
West, Thomas G.
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, Volume 34 (3)
Association for Computing Machinery – Aug 1, 2000
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