关键词: 植食性哺乳动物, 植物化学防卫, 适应对策, 植物次生化合物

Abstract: The plant chemical defenses and the adaptive strategies of herbivorous mammals are the main aspects in nutritional ecology and evolutionary ecology. Plant secondary compounds could decrease the food intake digestibility and protein availability and some compounds could effect the normal reproductive performance of herbivorous manmals. Tannin is an important feeding deterrent to herbivores. Animals processed information about food through cognitive processes and affective processes in diet selection. The offspring could learn foraging information from mother in uterus and weaning and get also foraging information from experienced forager through social learning. The manmalian herbivores could reduce the influence of plant secondary compounds by increasing the food item spectrum learning of diet selection, formation of coagulation degradation of microorganism oxidation and reduction.

Key words: Herbivorous manmals, Plant chemical defense, Food selection, Plant secondary compounds