Table 1.

Percentage composition of food items consumed by geladas during the wet and dry seasons.

Plant part	Dry	Wet	Mean
Grass blade and stems	52.1	77.91	65.01
Herb leaves	3.28	6.74	5.01
Herb roots	2.26	0.43	1.35
Grass roots	11.6	1.29	6.45
Tuber	23.31	7.6	15.45
Unidentified tuber	2.76	2.44	2.61
Cereals	0.4	0.29	0.35
Animal preys	3.68		1.85
Others	0.61	3.3	1.96