In order to avoid the misapprehension that the ingested acorns would always have the same weight, thus ignoring the pigs' selective consumption it was decided that the acorns consumed under the preferred oaks (those under whose canopy ≥10 acorns were consumed) ought to be considered as representative of the daily
acorn consumption, and so 300 g of samples were collected from under those trees. 20 acorns from those samples were