Fruit and seed sizes
The fruit and seed sizes of the plants consumed by the three taxa
studied were compiled to relate them to their morphology and the seed
dispersal capacities. Seeds found intact in the feces are considered to
be dispersed by endozoochory. These data were mainly obtained from
existing databases (Forget et al. 2007; Bretagnolle et al.unpub.), a book (Lobova et al. 2009), journals (see Appendix S2),
theses (Gompper 1994; Nakabayashi 2015) and through the help of M.
Norconk, T. Gregory, D. Chakravarthy, A. Blackburn, O. Razafindratsima
and M. Gompper. The dimensions measured on seeds and fruits are length
and width (mm). Sometimes, these data are available for the same species
at different locations. Thus, data from the locality where the species
ingests the larger seeds were used because we were interested in the
maximal seed or fruit size that can be ingested by an animal.