Menjilat mineral: Perbedaan antara revisi

'''Menjilat mineral''' (dikenal juga sebagai '''menjilat garam''' atau '''menjilat tanah''') adalah cara memperoleh garam-garam dengan cara memakan gumpalan tanah yang mengandung garam, menggemburkan tanah tebing yang keras dengan kaki depan dan gadingnya, dan makan pada saat hari hujan atau setelah hujan.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wwf.or.id/program/wilayah_kerja_kami/jawa___sumatera/tessonilobukittigapuluh/focal_species/elephants/aboutsum_elephants/ |title=Salinan arsip |access-date=2014-07-07 |archive-date=2014-07-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715034705/http://www.wwf.or.id/program/wilayah_kerja_kami/jawa___sumatera/tessonilobukittigapuluh/focal_species/elephants/aboutsum_elephants/ |dead-url=yes }}</ref> Garam-garam mineral tersebut antara lain adalah [[kalsium]] (Ca), [[magnesium]] (Mg), [[sulfur]] (S) [[fosforus]] (P), [[potassium]] (K), dan [[sodium]] (Na).<ref name="Emmons79">{{cite journal | last1=Emmons | first1=L. H. | last2=Stark | first2=N. M. | title=Elemental composition of a natural mineral lick in Amazonia | journal=Biotropica | volume=11 | issue=4 | pages=311–313 | year=1979 | jstor=2387925}}</ref><ref name="Blake11">{{cite journal | last1=Black | first1=J. G. | last2=Mosquera | first2=D. | last3=Guerra | first3=J. | last4=Loiselle | first4=B. A. | last5=Romo | first5=D. | last6=Swing | first6=K. | year=2011 | title=Mineral licks as diversity hotspots in lowland forest of eastern Ecuador | journal=Diversity | volume=3 | issue=2 | pages=217–234 | doi=10.3390/d3020217 | url=http://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/3/2/217/pdf}}</ref><ref name="Ayotte08">{{cite journal | last1=Ayotte | first1=J. B. | last2=Parker | first2=K. L. | last3=Gillingham | first3=M. P. | title=Use of natural licks by four species of ungulates in northern British Columbia | journal=Journal of Mammalogy | volume=89 | issue=4 | pages=1041–1050 | year=2008 | url=http://www.asmjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1644/07-MAMM-A-345.1 | doi=10.1644/07-MAMM-A-345.1}}</ref><ref name="Atwood03">{{cite journal | last1=Atwood | first1=T. C. | last2=Weeks | first2=H. P. | title=Sex-specific patterns of mineral lick preference in white-tailed deer | journal=Northeastern Naturalist | volume=10 | issue=4 | pages=409–414 | year=2003 | jstor=3858657}}</ref>