RESEARCH ARTICLE Sources of Tooth Wear Variation Early in Life Among Known‐Aged Wild Ring‐Tailed Lemurs (Lemur catta) at the Bezà Mahafaly Special Reserve, Madagascar
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FRANK P. CUOZZO*, BRIAN R. HEAD, MICHELLE L. SAUTHER, PETER S. UNGAR, AND M. TEAGUE O’MARA Department of Anthropology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas Department of Biology & Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany Department of Migration and Immuno Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Radolfzell, Germany
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Sources of tooth wear variation early in life among known-aged wild ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) at the Bezà Mahafaly Special Reserve, Madagascar.
Ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) at the Bezà Mahafaly Special Reserve (BMSR), Madagascar display a high frequency of individuals with notable and sometimes extreme tooth wear. Adult lemurs display a range of tooth wear even among individuals of the same age, but we do not know at what age this variation first appears. This study's goal was to determine whether wear variation occurs in younger w...
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