Interplay of phenology and reproduction in ring-tailed lemurs: Implications for ring-tailed lemur conservation

Folia Primatologica

Volumn 69, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1998, Pages 309-320

  Sauther, Michelle L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Diet; Female dominance; Food availability; Lemurs; Phenology; Reproduction; Ring tailed lemur

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000704140     PISSN: 00155713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000052719     Document Type: Review

References (45)

1. Sussman RW, Richard A: Lemur conservation in Madagascar: The status of lemurs in the south. Primate Conserv 1986;7:85-92.
2. Budnitz N: Feeding behavior of Lemur catta in different habitats; PhD thesis, Duke University, 1976.
3. Harcourt C, Thornback J: Lemurs of Madagascar and the Comoros. The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK, IUCN, 1990.
4. Sussman RW: Demography and social organization of free-ranging Lemur catta in the Beza Mahafaly Reserve, Madagascar. Am J Phys Anthrop 1991;84:43-58.
5. Sauther ML: Effect of Reproductive State, Social Rank and Group Size on Resource use among Free-Ranging Ringtailed Lemurs (Lemur catta) of Madagascar; PhD thesis, Washington University, 1992.
6. Jolly A: Lemur Behavior. Chicago, University Press, 1966.
7. Sauther ML: Reproductive behavior of free-ranging Lemur catta at Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve, Madagascar. Am J Phys Anthrop 1991;84:463-477.
8. Gould L: The social development of free-ranging infant Lemur catta at Berenty Reserve, Madagascar. Int J Primatol 1990;11:297-318.
9. Sussman RW, Rakotozafy A: Plant diversity and structural analysis of a tropical dry forest in southwestern Madagascar. Biotropica 1994;26:241-254.
10. Gould L: Patterns of Affiliative Behavior in Adult Male Ringtailed Lemurs (Lemur catta) at the Beza-Mahafaly Reserve, Madagascar; PhD thesis, Washington University, 1994.
11. Robbins CT: Wildlife Feeding and Nutrition. London, Academic Press, 1983.
12. Clutton-Brock TH, Albon SD, Guiness FE: Fitness costs of gestation and lactation in wild mammals. Nature 1989;337:360-363.
13. Sauther ML, Nash LT: The effect of reproductive state and body size on food consumption in captive Galago senegalensis braccatus. Am J Phys Anthrop 1986;73:81-88.
14. Terborgh J: Community aspects of frugivory in tropical forests; in Estrada A, Fleming TH (eds): Frugivores and Seed Dispersal. Dordrecht, Dr. W. Junk, 1986, pp 371-384.
15. Benirschke K, Miller CJ: Weights and neonatal growth of ringtailed lemurs (Lemur catta) and ruffed lemurs (Lemur variegatus). J Zool Anim Med 1981;12:107-110.
16. Pereira ME: Seasonal adjustment of growth rate and adult body weight in ringtailed lemurs; in Kappeler PM, Ganzhorn JU (eds): Lemur Social Systems and Their Ecological Basis. New York, Plenum Press, 1993, pp 205-221.
17. Buss DH, Cooper RW, Wallen K: Composition of lemur milk. Folia Primatol 1976;26:301-305.
18. Jolly A: The puzzle of female feeding priority; in Small MF (ed): Female Primates: Studies by Women Primatologists. New York, Liss, 1984, pp 197-215.
19. Young AL, Richard AF, Aiello LC: Female dominance and maternal investment in strepsirhine primates. Am Nat 1990;135:473-488.
20. Sauther ML: Resource competition in wild populations of ringtailed lemurs (Lemur catta): Implications for female dominance; in Kappeler PM, Ganzhorn JU (eds): Lemur Social Systems and Their Ecological Basis. New York, Plenum Press, 1993, pp 135-152.
21. Sussman RW: An Ecological Study of Two Madagascan Primates: Lemur fulvus rufus (Audebert) and Lemur catta (Linnaeus); unpubl PhD thesis, Duke University, 1972.
22. Tattersall I: The Primates of Madagascar. New York, Columbia University Press, 1982.
23. Pereira ME, Kaufman R, Kappeler PM, Overdorff D: Female dominance does not characterize all of the Lemuridae. Folia Primatol 1990;55:96-103.
24. Taylor, L: Kinship, Dominance, and Social Organization in a Semi Free-ranging Group of Ringtailed Lemurs (Lemur catta); PhD thesis, Washington University, 1986.
25. Kappeler PM: Female dominance in Lemur catta: More than just female feeding priority? Folia Primatol 1990;55:92-95.
26. Pollock J: Female dominance in Indri indri. Folia Primatol 1979;31:143-164.
27. Richard AF, Heimbuch R: An analysis of the social behavior of three groups of Propithecus verreauxi; in Tattersall I, Sussman RW (eds): Lemur Biology. New York, Plenum Press, 1975, pp 313-333.
28. Charles-Dominique P, Petter JJ: Ecology and social life of Phaner furcifer; in Charles-Dominique CP, Cooper HM, Hladik A, Pages E, Pariente GF, Petter-Rousseaux A, Petter JJ, Schilling A (eds): Nocturnal Malagasy Primates: Ecology, Physiology and Behavior. New York, Academic Press, 1980, pp 75-96.
29. Perret M: Influence du groupement social sur la reproduction de la femelle de Microcebus murinus. Z Tierpsychol 1982;60:47-65.
30. Pages-Feuillade E: Modalités de l'occupation de l'espace et relations interindividuelles chez un prosimien nocturne malgache (Microcebus murinus). Folia Primatol 1988;50:204-220.
31. Kaufman R: Female dominance in semifree-ranging black and white ruffed lemurs, Varecia variegata variegata. Folia Primatol 1991;57:39-41.
32. Rendall D: Does female social precedence characterize captive aye-ayes (Daubentonia madagascariensis)? Folia Primatol 1993;14:125-130.
33. Richard AF: The feeding behaviour of Propithecus verreauxi; in Clutton-Brock TH (ed): Primate Ecology. New York, Academic Press, 1977, pp 71-96.
34. Mittermeier R, Tattersall I, Konstant WR, Meyers DM, Mast RB: Lemurs of Madagascar. Washington, Conservation International, 1994.
35. Petter-Rousseaux A: Cycles génitaux saisonniers des lémuriens malgaches; in Canivenc R (ed): Cycles Génitaux Saisonniers des Mammifères Sauvages. Paris, Masson, 1968, pp 11-22.
36. Chism J, Rowell T, Olson D: Life history pattern of female patas monkeys; in Small, MF (ed): Female Primates: Studies by Women Primatologists. New York, Liss, 1984, pp 175-190.
37. Butynski TM: Guenon birth seasons and correlates with rainfall and food; in Gautier-Hion A, Bourliere F, Gautier H, Kingdon J (eds): A Primate Radiation: Evolutionary Biology of the African Guenons. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp 284-322.
38. Boinski S: Birth synchrony in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri oerstedi): A strategy to reduce neonatal predation. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 1987;21:393-400.
39. Sauther ML: Seasonal resources and their implication for ring-tailed lemur conservation (abstract). Folia Primatol 1998;69(suppl 1): 414.
40. Hladik CM, Charles-Dominique P, Petter JJ: Feeding strategies of five nocturnal prosimians in the dry forest of the west coast of Madagascar; in Charles-Dominique P, Cooper HM, Hladik A, Hladik CM, Pages E, Pariente GF, Petter-Rousseaux A, Schilling A (eds): Nocturnal Malagasy Primates: Ecology, Physiology, and Behavior. New York, Academic Press,1980, pp 41-73.
41. Meyers DM, Wright PC: Resource tracking: Food availability and Propithecus seasonal reproduction; in Kappeler PM, Ganzhorn JU (eds): Lemur Social Systems and their Ecological Basis. New York, Plenum Press, 1993, pp 179-192.
42. Overdorff DJ: Similarities, differences, and seasonal patterns in the diets of Eulemur rubriventer and Eulemur fulvus rufus in the Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. Int J Primat 1993;14:721-753.
43. Hill DA, Agetsuma M: Supra-annual variation in the influence of Myrica rubra fruit on the behavior of a troop of Japanese macaques. Am J Primatol 1995;35:241-250.
44. Caldecott JO: An ecological and behavioural study of the pig-tailed macaque; Contrib Primatol. Basel, Karger, 1986, vol 21, pp 1-259.
45. Sadleir RMFS: The Ecology of Reproduction in Wild and Domestic Mammals. London, Methuen, 1969.