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A Coupled Humanitarian and Biodiversity Crisis in Western Madagascar
The unsustainable hunting and consumption of primates destabilizes both wildlife populations and the humans who depend upon them. This is especially pertinent in Madagascar—one of the world’s poorest, least fo...
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Terrestrial Behavior in Titi Monkeys (Callicebus, Cheracebus, and Plecturocebus): Potential Correlates, Patterns, and Differences between Genera
For arboreal primates, ground use may increase dispersal opportunities, tolerance to habitat change, access to ground-based resources, and resilience to human disturbances, and so has conservation implications...
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Effects of Sex and Age on Heterothermy in Goodman’s Mouse Lemur (Microcebus lehilahytsara)
All habitats of Madagascar go through a dry season from April to September each year, resulting in a period of fruit scarcity lasting up to 6 months and creating selection pressure for adaptation to fluctuatio...
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Diversity and Prevalence of Diarrhea-Associated Viruses in the Lemur Community and Associated Human Population of Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar
Diarrhea-associated viruses are common causes of morbidity in humans in develo** countries; however, they have seldom been studied in wild primates despite their pathogenic and zoonotic potential. This is of...
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Spatial Ecology of the Endangered Milne-Edwards’ Sifaka (Propithecus edwardsi): Do Logging and Season Affect Home Range and Daily Ranging Patterns?
Primates often live in human-altered habitats; Malagasy lemurs are no exception. It is important to understand if habitat alteration affects primates’ space use patterns across multiple spatial and temporal sc...
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The Effects of Habitat Disturbance on Lemurs at Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar
The alarming rate of deforestation in Madagascar is driving some endemic primates to extinction. Surprisingly, anthropogenic habitat disturbance is not always deleterious. The effect of disturbance on lemur ab...
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Mammals in Madagascar: Biogeography, Natural History, and New Species
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Morphological Variation in Populations of Eulemur albocollaris and E. fulvus rufus
Sexual dimorphism in body size and canine weaponry is commonly associated with high levels of male-male competition. When group living species do not rely heavily on male-male competition for access to females...
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Book Review: Primates Face to Face. The Conservation Implications of Human-Nonhuman Primate Interconnections. Edited by Agustin Fuentes and Linda D. Wolfe, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 2002, xvii + 340 pp., US$100.00 (hardcover)
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Specific Status of Propithecus spp.
Controversial taxonomic relationships within Propithecus have consistently made conservation and management decisions difficult. We present a multidisciplinary phylogenetic analysis of Propithecus supporting the ...
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Effect of Season and Age on the Gonadosomatic Index of Milne-Edwards' Sifakas (Propithecus diadema edwardsi) in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar
Aiming to explain individual variation in gonadosomatic index (testicular volume per body weight), we examined the relationship between gonadosomatic index (GI), age, and season in a wild, seasonally breeding ...
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Book Review: Primate Behavioral Ecology. Karen B. Strier Allyn and Bacon Press, Needham Heights, Massachusetts, 2000, vii+392pp., US$36.00)
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Demography and life history of free-rangingPropithecus diadema edwardsi in ranomafana national park, madagascar
I conducted the first long- term study of the life history patterns of Propithecus diadema edwardsi—Milne- Edward’s sifaka— in the rain forests of southeastern Madagascar, beginning in 19...
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Patterns of paternal care in primates
An interspecific comparison was carried out to understand better the relationships among paternal care, paternal certainty, and reproductive burden in primates. Although monogamy is generally rare among mammal...
