: Lemur Behavior: A Madagascar Field Study . Alison Jolly.

Reproductive Behavior of Free-Ranging Lemur catta at Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve, Madagascar

Observations of reproductive behavior in free-ranging Lemur catta were carried out during one annual cycle. Variability in the behavior of female ringtailed lemurs during parturition appears to be mainly a function of the female's parity and thus her experience. Females within a troop show estrous asynchrony and characteristically mate with more than one male. Females also exhibit proceptive be...

Antipredator Behavior in Troops of Free-Ranging Lemur catta at Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve, Madagascar

Observations of antipredator behavior in two troops of free-ranging Lemur catta were made during a 13-month study o f L. cattafeeding ecology. Both responses to and frequency o f encounters with other species were recorded. Ringtailed lemur antipredator calls differentiated between terrestrial and avian predators. L. catta responded to the Madagascar harrier hawk (Polyboroides radiatus) and the...

Lemur habitat and dental senescence in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar.

Not only can teeth provide clues about diet, but they also can be indicators of habitat quality. Conspecific groups living in different habitats with different kinds of foods may exhibit different rates of dental attrition because their teeth are less well adapted to some foods than to others. Ecological disequilibrium describes the situation in which animals live in habitats to which they are ...

Wccmt Case Study – Alison Ritchie

A Genome Sequence Resource for the Aye-Aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis), a Nocturnal Lemur from Madagascar

We present a high-coverage draft genome assembly of the aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis), a highly unusual nocturnal primate from Madagascar. Our assembly totals ~3.0 billion bp (3.0 Gb), roughly the size of the human genome, comprised of ~2.6 million scaffolds (N50 scaffold size = 13,597 bp) based on short paired-end sequencing reads. We compared the aye-aye genome sequence data with fou...