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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...
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Lors d’une étude de terrain réalisée pendant deux ans sur l’environnement et le comportement du aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) sur l’île de Nosy Mangabe, j’ai récolleté des données sur l’accouplement, la ...
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Resource Tracking: Food Availability and Propithecus Seasonal Reproduction
In order to examine the ultimate causes of the strict reproductive seasonality found among Malagasy primates, we compared the feeding ecology and reproductive timing of two Propithecus species in dry forest and i...
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Predation, Pollination and Torpor in Two Nocturnal Prosimians: Cheirogaleus Major and Microcebus Rufus in the Rain Forest of Madagascar
Cheirogaleus is the only known genus of primate with extended periods of torpor (Petter, 1978). Previous field studies of the two smallest rain forest species of nocturnal primates, Cheirogaleus ma...
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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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The Neotropical Primate Adaptation to Nocturnality
The only primate with a nocturnal lifestyle in the neotropics is Aotus, the owl monkey. The genus is found from Panama to northern Argentina, and is very diverse. Twelve karyotypically distinct forms have diploid...
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Análise cladistica das seqüências dos genes Epsilon-globin a e IRBP fornece informaçāe complementar importante para urn esboço das principais linhas da filogenia dos macacos do Novo Mundo. As abordagens morfól...
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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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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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Variability in adult group compositions of a prosimian primate
Many species fall into specific mating-system categories, and that category is usually associated with a suite of behavioral and morphological characteristics. Several lemur species, including Propithecus diadema...
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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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The chemistry of scent marking in two lemurs: Lemur catta and Propithecus verreauxi coquereli
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The Key to Madagascar Frugivores
In the Malagasy ecosystem one particular animal group, lemurs, have the greatest biomass and species richness of frugivores. The peak fruit production in the Malagasy rain forests is about three months shorter...
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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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Considering Climate Change Effects in Lemur Ecology and Conservation
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Predation on Lemurs in the Rainforest of Madagascar by Multiple Predator Species: Observations and Experiments
Predation by raptors, snakes, and carnivores is a constant risk for most wild primates (Cheney & Seyfarth, 1981; Anderson, 1986; Cheney & Wrangham, 1987; Janson & van Schaik, 1993; Cowlishaw, 1994; Isbell, 1994;
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Peculiar Tooth Homologies of the Greater Bamboo Lemur (Prolemur = Hapalemur simus)
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Decades of Lemur Research and Conservation
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Object permanence in lemurs
Object permanence, the ability to mentally represent objects that have disappeared from view, should be advantageous to animals in their interaction with the natural world. The objective of this study was to e...
