Pair-Specific Usage of Sleeping Sites and Their Implications for Social Organization in a Nocturnal Malagasy Primate, the Milne Edwards' Sportive Lemur (Lepilemur edwardsi)

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 251-258

  Rasoloharijaona, Solofonirina ^a,b   Rakotosamimanana, Berthe ^b   Randrianambinina, Blanchard ^a,b   Zimmermann, Elke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTANANARIVO   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

Behavioral ecology; Evolution; Lemur; Madagascar; Morphology; Social system

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPETITION; FEMALE; MADAGASCAR; MALE; NIGHT SLEEP; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PROSIMIAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SLEEP; SLEEP PATTERN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LEMURIDAE; MADAGASCAR; MALE; PAIR BOND; SEX FACTORS; SLEEP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0142183431     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.10281     Document Type: Article

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