Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Lemur Social Systems and Their Ecological Basis

  • Book
  • © 1993

Overview

Editors:
  1. Peter M. Kappeler

    1. Deutsches Primatenzentrum, Göttingen, Germany

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Jörg U. Ganzhorn

    1. Deutsches Primatenzentrum, Göttingen, Germany

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Patterns of Range Use and Social Organization in Aye-Ayes (Daubentonia Madagascariensis) on Nosy Mangabe

    • Eleanor J. Sterling
    Pages 1-10

  3. The Socioecology of Eulemur Macaco: A Preliminary Report

    • Ian C. Colquhoun
    Pages 11-23

  4. Home Range and Diet in Red Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia Variegata Rubra) on the Masoala Peninsula, Madagascar

    • Marco M. Rigamonti
    Pages 25-39

  5. Male Transfer in Captive Ruffed Lemurs, Varecia Variegata Variegata

    • Frances J. White, Elizabeth A. Balko, ElizaBeth A. Fox
    Pages 41-49

  6. A Review of Predation on Lemurs: Implications for the Evolution of Social Behavior in Small, Nocturnal Primates

    • Steven M. Goodman, Sheila O’Connor, Olivier Langrand
    Pages 51-66

  7. Adaptation and Phylogenetic Constraints in the Antipredator Behavior of Ringtailed and Ruffed Lemurs

    • Joseph M. Macedonia
    Pages 67-84

  8. Territoriality in Lemur Catta Groups during the Birth Season at Berenty, Madagascar

    • Alison Jolly, Hantanirina R. Rasamimanana, Margaret F. Kinnaird, Timothy G. O’Brien, Helen M. Crowley, Caroline S. Harcourt et al.
    Pages 85-109

  9. A New Interpretation of the Social Organization and Mating System of the Ringtaled Lemur (Lemur Catta)

    • Michelle L. Sauther, Robert W. Sussman
    Pages 111-121

  10. Feeding Behavior of Lemur Catta Females in Relation to Their Physiological State

    • Hantanirina R. Rasamimanana, Elie Rafidinarivo
    Pages 123-133

  11. Resource Competition in Wild Populations of Ringtailed Lemurs (Lemur Catta): Implications for Female Dominance

    • Michelle L. Sauther
    Pages 135-152

  12. Flexibility and Constraints of Lepilemur Ecology

    • Jörg U. Ganzhorn
    Pages 153-165

  13. Ecological and Reproductive Correlates to Range Use in Red-Bellied Lemurs (Eulemur Rubriventer) and Rufous Lemurs (Eulemur Fulvus Rufus)

    • Deborah J. Overdorff
    Pages 167-178

  14. Resource Tracking: Food Availability and Propithecus Seasonal Reproduction

    • David M. Meyers, Patricia C. Wright
    Pages 179-192

  15. Seasonal Behavioral Variation and Its Relationship to Thermoregulation in Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia Variegata Variegata)

    • Hilary Simons Morland
    Pages 193-203

  16. Seasonal Adjustment of Growth Rate and Adult Body Weight in Ringtailed Lemurs

    • Michael E. Pereira
    Pages 205-221

  17. Sexual Selection and Lemur Social Systems

    • Peter M. Kappeler
    Pages 223-240

  18. Life History, Activity Period and Lemur Social Systems

    • Carel P. van Schaik, Peter M. Kappeler
    Pages 241-260

  19. Resumes

    • Eleanor J. Sterling, Ian C. Colquhoun, Marco M. Rigamonti, Frances J. White, Elisabeth A. Balko, ElisaBeth A. Fox et al.
    Pages 261-269

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 271-274
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

The past decade has seen a steady increase in studies oflemur behavior and ecology. As a result, there is much novel information on newly studied populations, and even newly discovered species, that has not yet been published or summarized. In fact, lemurs have not been the focus of an international symposium since the Prosimian Biology Conference in London in 1972. Moreover, research on lemurs has reached a new quality by addressing general issues in behavioral ecology and evolutionary biology. Although lemurs provide important comparative information on these topics, this aspect of research on lemurs has not been reviewed and compared with similar studies in other primate radiations. Thus, as did many in the field, we felt that the time was ripe to review and synthesize our knowledge of lemur behavioral ecology. Following an initiative by Gerry Doyle, we organized a symposium at the XIVth Congress of the International Primatological Society in Strasbourg, France, where 15 contributions summarized much new information on lemur social systems and their ecological basis. This volume provides a collection of the papers presented at the Strasbourg symposium (plus two reports from recently completed field projects). Each chapter was peer-reviewed, typically by one "lemurologist" and one other biologist. The first three chapters present novel information from the first long-term field studies of three enigmatic species. Sterling describes the social organization of Daubentonia madagascariensis, showing that aye-aye ranging patterns deviate from those of all other nocturnal primates.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Deutsches Primatenzentrum, Göttingen, Germany

    Peter M. Kappeler, Jörg U. Ganzhorn

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation